Summary of Randomized Asymmetric Chain Of Lora: the First Meaningful Theoretical Framework For Low-rank Adaptation, by Grigory Malinovsky et al.
Randomized Asymmetric Chain of LoRA: The First Meaningful Theoretical Framework for Low-Rank Adaptation
by Grigory Malinovsky, Umberto Michieli, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Taha Ceritli, Hayder Elesedy, Mete Ozay, Peter Richtárik
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the optimization properties of popular fine-tuning methods, particularly Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). LoRA has shown strong performance in adapting large models to specific tasks, but its variants often under-perform compared to full-parameter fine-tuning. The authors demonstrate that LoRA and its extensions encounter convergence issues, which they address by proposing a new framework called Randomized Asymmetric Chain of LoRA (RAC-LoRA). RAC-LoRA inherits the empirical benefits of LoRA-style heuristics while introducing small algorithmic modifications to ensure provable convergence. The authors provide guarantees of convergence to the same solution as full-parameter fine-tuning, along with the rate of convergence. They also conduct a convergence analysis for smooth, non-convex loss functions in gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, and federated learning settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is about how to make big AI models work better for specific tasks. One way to do this is called fine-tuning, but it can be tricky to get right. The authors look at a popular method called LoRA and find that it has some problems. They propose a new way of doing things, called RAC-LoRA, which fixes these problems and works better than before. This helps make sure the model gets to the right answer quickly and accurately. The researchers also show how this new approach can be used in different situations, like when you’re trying to train a model on lots of data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning » Fine tuning » Gradient descent » Lora » Low rank adaptation » Optimization » Stochastic gradient descent
