Summary of Lora+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation Of Large Models, by Soufiane Hayou et al.
LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models
by Soufiane Hayou, Nikhil Ghosh, Bin Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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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 challenges the effectiveness of Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA), a technique that adapts models to new tasks. Specifically, it reveals that LoRA’s suboptimal finetuning of large-width models stems from using the same learning rate for adapter matrices A and B. By introducing LoRA+, which separates learning rates for these matrices with a carefully chosen ratio, the authors demonstrate improved performance (1-2% gains) and faster finetuning speeds (up to 2X speedup) without increasing computational costs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper shows that a popular way of making models work better on new tasks isn’t working as well as it should. The problem lies in how this method, called Low Rank Adaptation, adjusts the model’s weights. By changing how these adjustments are made, the authors create a new method called LoRA+ that does better and faster than the original. This means that machines can learn to do new tasks more accurately and quickly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Lora * Low rank adaptation
