Summary of Merging Loras Like Playing Lego: Pushing the Modularity Of Lora to Extremes Through Rank-wise Clustering, by Ziyu Zhao et al.
Merging LoRAs like Playing LEGO: Pushing the Modularity of LoRA to Extremes Through Rank-Wise Clustering
by Ziyu Zhao, Tao Shen, Didi Zhu, Zexi Li, Jing Su, Xuwu Wang, Kun Kuang, Fei Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the potential of combining multiple Low-Rank Adaptations (LoRAs) to enhance large language model capabilities. Existing methods for LoRA composition focus on task-specific adaptations, which require additional training, and current model merging techniques often fail to fully leverage LoRA’s modular nature, leading to performance degradation. The authors introduce Minimal Semantic Units (MSUs), which demonstrate permutation invariance and concatenation-summation equivalence properties, enabling flexible combinations to create new LoRAs. They propose the LoRA-LEGO framework, which conducts rank-wise parameter clustering by grouping MSUs into clusters, and applies a dual reweighting strategy to optimize the scale of the merged LoRA. Experimental results show that this approach outperforms existing methods in LoRA merging. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding new ways to combine different parts of language models together to make them better at doing certain tasks. Right now, people are mostly combining these parts by making the model do a specific task, which can be hard and time-consuming. The authors found a way to break down the model into smaller pieces that can be mixed and matched in different ways, kind of like building with LEGO blocks. They tested this idea on several language models and showed that it works better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering » Large language model » Lora
