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Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is the dominant parameter-efficient fine-tuning method due to its favorable compute-performance trade-off, yet it suffers from catastrophic forgetting. We study forgetting through a tractable _mean-field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hugo Koubbi , Louis Hernandez , Matthieu Boussard

Benefiting from massive corpora and advanced hardware, large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in language understanding and generation. However, their performance degrades in scenarios where multiple tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiao Wang , Tianze Chen , Qiming Ge , Han Xia , Rong Bao , Rui Zheng , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Xuanjing Huang

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) based on low-rank decomposition, such as LoRA, has become a standard for adapting large pretrained models. However, its behavior in sequential learning -- specifically regarding catastrophic forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Muhammad Ahmad , Jingjing Zheng , Yankai Cao

Pre-trained models with parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) have demonstrated promising potential for class-incremental learning (CIL), yet catastrophic forgetting still persists when adapting models to new tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Fengqiang Wan , Yipeng Lin , Kan Lv , Yang Yang

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient fine-tuning of large language models but suffers from catastrophic forgetting when learned updates interfere with the dominant singular directions that encode essential pre-trained knowledge. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yifeng Xiong , Xiaohui Xie

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

Continual learning in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) faces the dual challenges of catastrophic forgetting and the high computational cost of retraining. This study establishes Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as a parameter-efficient framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Salvador Carrión , Francisco Casacuberta

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely-used parameter-efficient finetuning method for large language models. LoRA saves memory by training only low rank perturbations to selected weight matrices. In this work, we compare the performance of…

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is an efficient fine-tuning method that has been extensively applied in areas such as natural language processing and computer vision. Existing LoRA fine-tuning approaches excel in static environments but struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Xin Zhang , Liang Bai , Xian Yang , Jiye Liang

Broad, open source availability of large pretrained foundation models on the internet through platforms such as HuggingFace has taken the world of practical deep learning by storm. A classical pipeline for neural network training now…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Albin Soutif--Cormerais , Simone Magistri , Joost van de Weijer , Andew D. Bagdanov

Existing research has shown that large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable performance in language understanding and generation. However, when LLMs are continuously fine-tuned on complex and diverse domain-specific downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Weijieying Ren , Xinlong Li , Lei Wang , Tianxiang Zhao , Wei Qin

Sequential fine-tuning of pretrained language encoders often overwrites previously acquired capabilities, but the forgetting behavior of parameter-efficient updates remains under-characterized. We present a controlled empirical study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ashish Pandey

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for Continual Learning. It independently updates its low-rank factors ($A$ and $B$), creating a composite update to the full weight matrix through their interaction. To prevent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Cheng Chen , Pengpeng Zeng , Yuyu Guo , Lianli Gao , Hengtao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Low-rank adaptation is effective partly because downstream updates lie in a low-dimensional subspace, but the latent rank coordinates of LoRA are not identifiable: any invertible reparameterization of the adapter factors leaves the weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Cooper Doyle , Andy Hu , Rebecca Chan , Anna Leontjeva

Vision language model (VLM) has been designed for large scale image-text alignment as a pretrained foundation model. For downstream few shot classification tasks, parameter efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) VLM has gained much popularity in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhongqi Wang , Jia Dai , Kai Li , Xu Li , Yanmeng Guo , Maosheng Xiang

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), enable fast specialization of large pre-trained models to different downstream applications. However, this process often leads to catastrophic forgetting of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Joanna Sliwa , Frank Schneider , Philipp Hennig , Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in natural language processing but face catastrophic forgetting when learning new tasks, where adaptation to a new domain leads to a substantial decline in performance on previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yuheng Lu , Bingshuo Qian , Caixia Yuan , Huixing Jiang , Xiaojie Wang

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning method, yet its learned correction is static: the same low-rank update is applied to every input. This input-agnostic approach creates an inevitable compromise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ali Zindari , Xiaowen Jiang , Rotem Mulayoff , Sebastian U. Stich

Fine-tuning pre-trained large language models in a parameter-efficient manner is widely studied for its effectiveness and efficiency. The popular method of low-rank adaptation (LoRA) offers a notable approach, hypothesizing that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ning Ding , Xingtai Lv , Qiaosen Wang , Yulin Chen , Bowen Zhou , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has been widely adopted as a parameter-efficient technique for fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained models. However, it still lags behind full fine-tuning in performance, partly due to its insufficient exploitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhizhong Li , Sina Sajadmanesh , Jingtao Li , Lingjuan Lyu
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