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We propose Tensor-Trained Low-Rank Adaptation Mixture of Experts (TT-LoRA MoE), a novel computational framework integrating Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) with sparse MoE routing to address scalability challenges in large model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Pradip Kunwar , Minh N. Vu , Maanak Gupta , Mahmoud Abdelsalam , Manish Bhattarai

Foundational models are trained on extensive datasets to capture the general trends of a domain. However, in medical imaging, the scarcity of data makes pre-training for every domain, modality, or task challenging. Instead of building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mohammad Areeb Qazi , Munachiso S Nwadike , Ibrahim Almakky , Mohammad Yaqub , Numan Saeed

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), are known to enhance training efficiency in Large Language Models (LLMs). Due to the limited parameters of LoRA, recent studies seek to combine LoRA with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Peijun Qing , Chongyang Gao , Yefan Zhou , Xingjian Diao , Yaoqing Yang , Soroush Vosoughi

Fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained models is prohibitively expensive in terms of computation and memory costs. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), a popular Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, offers an efficient solution by optimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tao Li , Zhengbao He , Yujun Li , Yasheng Wang , Lifeng Shang , Xiaolin Huang

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a milestone in aligning large language models with human instructions and adapting them to downstream tasks. In particular, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has gained widespread attention due to its parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jia-Chen Zhang , Yu-Jie Xiong , Xi-He Qiu , Chun-Ming Xia , Fei Dai , Zheng Zhou

Large vision-language models (VLMs) excel on general benchmarks but often lack robustness in medical imaging, where heterogeneous supervision induces cross-dataset interference and sensitivity to data regime (i.e., how the supervisory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Omid Nejati Manzari , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Taha Koleilat , Yiming Xiao , Hassan Rivaz

Deep segmentation networks achieve high performance when trained on specific datasets. However, in clinical practice, it is often desirable that pretrained segmentation models can be dynamically extended to enable segmenting new organs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Vince Zhu , Zhanghexuan Ji , Dazhou Guo , Puyang Wang , Yingda Xia , Le Lu , Xianghua Ye , Wei Zhu , Dakai Jin

As deep learning models expand, the pre-training-fine-tuning paradigm has become the standard approach for handling various downstream tasks. However, shared parameters can lead to diminished performance when dealing with complex datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Junzhou Xu , Boyu Diao

With the breakthrough of Transformer-based pre-trained models, the demand for fine-tuning (FT) to adapt the base pre-trained models to downstream applications continues to grow, so it is essential for service providers to reduce the cost of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sheng Lin , Fangcheng Fu , Haoyang Li , Hao Ge , Xuanyu Wang , Jiawen Niu , Yaofeng Tu , Bin Cui

We introduce MSLoRA, a backbone-agnostic, parameter-efficient adapter that reweights feature responses rather than re-tuning the underlying backbone. Existing low-rank adaptation methods are mostly confined to vision transformers (ViTs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xu Yang , Gady Agam

Adaptability has been regarded as a central feature in the foundation models, enabling them to effectively acclimate to unseen downstream tasks. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods such as celebrated LoRA facilitate efficient adaptation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gagik Magakyan , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Chanwoo Park , Pablo A. Parrilo , Asuman Ozdaglar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various tasks, but fine-tuning them for domain-specific applications often requires substantial domain-specific data that may be distributed across multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Lei Wang , Jieming Bian , Letian Zhang , Jie Xu

Foundation models open up new possibilities for the use of AI in healthcare. However, even when pre-trained on health data, they still need to be fine-tuned for specific downstream tasks. Furthermore, although foundation models reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

Federated efficient fine-tuning has emerged as an approach that leverages distributed data and computational resources across nodes to address the challenges of large-scale fine-tuning and privacy preservation. The Low-Rank Adaptation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jianzhe Zhao , Hailin Zhu , Yu Zhang , Ziqi Chen , Guibing Guo

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used for adapting large language models (LLMs) to specific domains due to its efficiency and modularity. Meanwhile, vanilla LoRA struggles with task conflicts in multi-task scenarios. Recent works adopt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ziyu Zhao , Yixiao Zhou , Zhi Zhang , Didi Zhu , Tao Shen , Zexi Li , Jinluan Yang , Xuwu Wang , Jing Su , Kun Kuang , Zhongyu Wei , Fei Wu , Yu Cheng

Large-scale pretraining followed by task-specific finetuning has achieved great success in various NLP tasks. Since finetuning all parameters of large pretrained models poses substantial computational and memory challenges, several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ruiyi Zhang , Rushi Qiang , Sai Ashish Somayajula , Pengtao Xie

How to adapt a pre-trained model continuously for sequential tasks with different prediction class labels and domains and finally learn a generalizable model across diverse tasks is a long-lasting challenge. Continual learning (CL) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xiaobing Yu , Jin Yang , Xiao Wu , Peijie Qiu , Xiaofeng Liu

Recent literature on fine-tuning Large Language Models highlights a fundamental debate. While Full Fine-Tuning (FFT) provides the representational plasticity required for high-entropy knowledge injection, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haozhan Tang , Xiuqi Zhu , Xinyin Zhang , Boxun Li , Virginia Smith , Kevin Kuo

The automation of workflows in advanced microscopy is a key goal where foundation models like Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great potential. However, adapting these general-purpose models for specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Robinson Umeike , Neil Getty , Yin Xiangyu , Yi Jiang

Federated fine-tuning has emerged as a promising approach to adapt foundation models to downstream tasks using decentralized data. However, real-world deployment remains challenging due to the high computational and communication demands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yajie Zhou , Xiaoyi Pang , Zhibo Wang