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Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely adopted technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning, but its slow convergence has spurred the development of numerous variants. Nevertheless, existing methods often fail to improve performance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jiale Kang , Qingyu Yin

Large language models (LLMs) are popular around the world due to their powerful understanding capabilities. As the core component of LLMs, accelerating Transformer through parallelization has gradually become a hot research topic. Mask…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Wenhao Dai , Haodong Deng , Mengfei Rong , Xinyu Yang , Hongyu Liu , Fangxin Liu , Hailong Yang , Qianwen Cao , Qingxiao Sun

Distributed LLM inference requires careful coordination of parallelization strategies across hundreds to thousands of NPUs to meet production SLOs. Current systems like Megatron-LM rely on static heuristics that separately configure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ruokai Yin , Sattwik Deb Mishra , Xuan Zuo , Hokchhay Tann , Preyas Shah , Apala Guha

The rapid scaling of large language models necessitates more lightweight finetuning methods to reduce the explosive GPU memory overhead when numerous customized models are served simultaneously. Targeting more parameter-efficient low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sheng Wang , Liheng Chen , Pengan Chen , Jingwei Dong , Boyang Xue , Jiyue Jiang , Lingpeng Kong , Chuan Wu

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs), and recent Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) extensions further enhance flexibility by dynamically combining multiple LoRA experts. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lin Mu , Haiyang Wang , Li Ni , Lei Sang , Zhize Wu , Peiquan Jin , Yiwen Zhang

In this paper, we propose a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based communication framework that allows machine type devices (MTDs) to access the network while avoiding congestion. The proposed technique is a 2-step mechanism that first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Manal El Tanab , Walaa Hamouda

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across various application domains, but their enormous sizes and computational demands pose significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kai Zhang , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become the de facto parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method for large language models (LLMs) by constraining weight updates to low-rank matrices. Recent works such as Tied-LoRA, VeRA, and VB-LoRA push…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kaiyang Li , Shaobo Han , Qing Su , Wei Li , Zhipeng Cai , Shihao Ji

Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as one of the most widely adopted methods for Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of Large Language Models (LLMs). LoRA reduces the number of trainable parameters and memory usage while achieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Justin Zhao , Timothy Wang , Wael Abid , Geoffrey Angus , Arnav Garg , Jeffery Kinnison , Alex Sherstinsky , Piero Molino , Travis Addair , Devvret Rishi

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) and its variants are widely employed in fine-tuning large models, including large language models for natural language processing and diffusion models for computer vision. This paper proposes a generalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiangyu Chen , Jing Liu , Ye Wang , Pu Perry Wang , Matthew Brand , Guanghui Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino

This paper investigates the design of chirp-layered superposition coding for LoRa, where an additional waveform is linearly superposed on a standard LoRa transmission with minimal impact on the LoRa demodulation process. We first show that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jingxiang Huang , Samer Lahoud

We present tensor and sequence parallelism (TSP), a parallel execution strategy that folds tensor parallelism and sequence parallelism onto a single device axis. In conventional multi-dimensional parallelism layouts, tensor parallelism (TP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Vasu Shyam , Anna Golubeva , Quentin Anthony

Running Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices is constrained by high compute and memory demands posing a barrier for real-time applications in sectors like healthcare, education, and embedded systems. Current solutions such as…

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) through Transformer structures have dominated many machine learning tasks, especially text processing. However, these models require massive amounts of data for training and induce high resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Kilian Pfeiffer , Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

With the rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-adapters have become increasingly common, providing lightweight specialization of large-scale models. Serving hundreds or thousands of these adapters on a single GPU allows…

Recently, LoRA has emerged as a crucial technique for fine-tuning large pre-trained models, yet its performance in multi-task learning scenarios often falls short. In contrast, the MoE architecture presents a natural solution to this issue.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Lulu Zhao , Weihao Zeng , Xiaofeng Shi , Hua Zhou

LoRa backscatter (LB) communication systems can be considered as a potential candidate for ultra low power wide area networks (LPWAN) because of their low cost and low power consumption. In this paper, we comprehensively analyze LB…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ganghui Lin , Ahmed Elzanaty , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The pretrain+fine-tune paradigm is foundational for deploying large language models (LLMs) across various downstream applications. Within this framework, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) stands out for its parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jingwei Xu , Junyu Lai , Yunpeng Huang

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tunes large models by learning low-rank updates on top of frozen weights, dramatically reducing trainable parameters and memory. In this work, we address the gap between training with full steps with low-rank…

This paper introduces a method for adapting LoRA adapters in smaller-sized language models to arbitrary downstream tasks. Unlike standard mixture-of-expert architectures, our method employs a gradient-free routing function to choose a…

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