arXiv AI

ToPA: Block-wise Toeplitz Adaptation for Expressive and Efficient Fine-Tuning

The paper introduces ToPA, a parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning method that replaces standard Toeplitz matrices with block‑wise Toeplitz matrices to increase capacity and shorten multiplicative chains, thereby stabilizing training and enhancing expressiveness. The authors theoretically prove that products of block‑wise Toeplitz matrices can approximate arbitrary matrices with shorter chain lengths and empirically demonstrate that ToPA outperforms existing low‑rank and sparse parameterizations across 21 NLP and CV datasets and five model architectures.

arXiv AI
Oct 2

GPart: End-to-End Isometric Fine-Tuning via Global Parameter Partitioning

GPart introduces a new parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning technique that directly maps a low‑dimensional trainable vector into the full weight space using a sparse, isometric partition matrix. Unlike LoRA, GPart eliminates the bilinear reconstruction step, preserving exact end‑to‑end isometry and reducing the checkpoint to just the vector and a random seed. Experiments across NLP, vision, and reasoning tasks show that GPart matches or surpasses existing PEFT methods while using far fewer parameters and offering a simpler, more tractable parameterization.

By Paolo Mandica, Micha{\l} Brzozowski, Zuzanna Dubanowska, Neo Christopher Chung
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Sparsity-Aware Low-Rank Representation for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

arXiv:2601. 16991v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting large pre-trained language models to downstream tasks often entails fine-tuning millions of parameters or deploying costly dense weight updates, which hinders their use in resource-constrained environments.

By Longteng Zhang, Sen Wu, Shuai Hou, Zhengyu Qing, Zhuo Zheng, Danning Ke, Qihong Lin, Qiang Wang, Shaohuai Shi, Xiaowen Chu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

ChainDoRA: Tensor-Train Factorized Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning

ChainDoRA is a new parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning framework for large language models that replaces the dense low‑rank factorization of LoRA with a connected Tensor‑Train (TT) chain. By separating weight magnitude and direction and using a TT rank to control representation capacity, ChainDoRA achieves higher average accuracy on seven commonsense reasoning benchmarks while dramatically reducing trainable parameters—down to 5.35 M versus 56 M for LoRA and DoRA. Ablation studies show that the TT parameterization offers controllable trade‑offs between parameter cost and accuracy.

By Ashfak Yeafi, Mehedi Hasan, Md Khairul Islam
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

BaRA: Bayesian Adaptive Rank Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2606. 29184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) enables highly efficient fine-tuning by constraining task-specific updates to fixed low-rank subspaces, this rigid design limits representational flexibility and often results in overconfident predictions and miscalibrated uncertainty, especially in low-data regimes.

By Zhibin Duan, Yuhong Wang, Jiahong Fu, Zongsheng Yue, Bo Chen, Zongben Xu