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LoRA (machine learning)

LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is a machine learning technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large pre-trained models, particularly large language models (LLMs) and deep neural networks. Introduced by Edward Hu et al. in 2021, LoRA enables scalable adaptation of models while significantly reducing the computational cost and memory requirements typically associated with full fine-tuning.

LoRA Concept

Overview

LoRA works by injecting trainable low-rank matrices into the attention and feed-forward layers of a pre-trained model while keeping the original weights frozen. During fine-tuning, LoRA learns a low-rank decomposition of the weight updates, significantly reducing the number of trainable parameters and memory footprint compared to traditional fine-tuning approaches.

The key idea behind LoRA is to express the weight update as:

$W_{updated}=W_{original}+BA$

where $W_{original}$ is the frozen pre-trained weight matrix, and $B$ and $A$ are low-rank matrices learned during fine-tuning. This approach leverages the observation that weight updates often have a low intrinsic rank during adaptation to downstream tasks.

Applications

LoRA is widely used in various domains for efficient model adaptation, including:

• Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs): Adapting LLMs for domain-specific tasks, personalizing chatbots to follow brand tone and domain requirements, and adapting models for medical natural language processing tasks.
• Creative AI and image generation: LoRA is extensively used in text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion to enable style specialization (e.g., anime style, oil painting), character specialization, and quality improvements in generated images.
• Healthcare diagnostics: Customizing medical imaging AI models for specific hospital networks and adapting diagnostic algorithms to unique patient populations while facilitating privacy-preserving machine learning.
• Manufacturing and predictive maintenance: Creating adaptive AI models for factory floor conditions, real-time anomaly detection systems, and localized machine performance prediction.
• Edge computing and resource-constrained environments: Due to its minimal memory footprint, reduced energy consumption, and faster inference, LoRA is suitable for edge devices and remote sensors.
• Non-functional requirements classification: Research has shown LoRA reduces execution costs with minimal impact on performance for non-functional requirements classification in software engineering.
• Knowledge graph completion (KGC): LoRA can enhance reasoning ability and prediction reliability in graph-structured reasoning tasks for KGC.

Implementations

Several open-source libraries and frameworks provide LoRA implementations for practical fine-tuning:

• Hugging Face PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning)
• Axolotl
• OpenLLM

See also

• Fine-tuning (machine learning)
• Transfer learning
• Parameter-efficient fine-tuning

External links

• LoRA Explained: Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models on SuperML
• What is LoRA? Explained by IBM

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