arXiv Machine Learning

OP-LoRA: The Blessing of Dimensionality

arXiv:2412. 10362v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-rank adapters (LoRA) enable finetuning of large models with only a small number of parameters.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

Prompt2Effect: Training-Free Image-to-Video Model Specialization via LoRA Generation

arXiv:2606.13971v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While personalizing Image-to-Video (I2V) diffusion models with specific visual effects is increasingly demanded for high-end generation, current pr...

By Xiaomeng Yang, Yanyu Li, Gordon Guocheng Qian, Ivan Skorokhodov, Viacheslav Ivanov, Avalon Vinella, Xuan Zhang, Yanzhi Wang, Sergey Tulyakov, Anil Kag
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

FlashAR: Efficient Post-Training Acceleration for Autoregressive Image Generation

FlashAR is a lightweight post‑training adaptation framework that converts a pre‑trained raster‑scan autoregressive image model into a highly parallel generator using two‑way next‑token prediction. It preserves the original training objective by keeping the horizontal head for row‑wise prediction and adding a lightweight vertical head for column‑wise prediction, with a learnable fusion gate to combine the two predictions. A two‑stage adaptation pipeline—first initializing the vertical head from the pre‑trained model and then jointly fine‑tuning—yields up to a 22.9× speedup for 512×512 image generation while using only 0.05% of the original training data.

By Junkang Zhou, Yefei He, Feng Chen, Weijie Wang, Bohan Zhuang
arXiv AI
2d ago

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 Machine Learning
Sep 14

Rank-Efficient LoRA via Joint Tangent-Space Optimization under Isotropic Curvature

The paper introduces ISO-LoRA, an optimizer that improves rank utilization in Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) by coupling factor updates through spectral descent on the induced tangent perturbation in weight space. Experiments on GPT‑2 adaptation show that standard optimizers like AdamW concentrate updates in a few singular directions, whereas ISO-LoRA distributes energy more evenly, leading to higher effective rank and better downstream performance across 0.1B‑7B models. The authors provide theoretical guarantees under a stylized spiked‑gradient model and demonstrate that ISO-LoRA consistently outperforms factor‑wise optimizers, especially at moderate‑to‑large LoRA ranks.

By Zihan Zhu, Zhehang Du, Xuyang Chen, Tim Tsz-Kit Lau, Jiayuan Wu, X. Y. Han, Qi Long, Weijie Su