arXiv Computation and Language

Hierarchical Low-Rank Reparameterization for Parameter-Efficient

The paper introduces a hierarchical low‑rank reparameterization technique that reorganizes the trainable parameters of parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning (PEFT) methods into an approximately square matrix and applies recursive low‑rank decomposition. This multi‑level compression drastically reduces the number of trainable parameters while preserving strong task performance. Experiments on LLaMA‑3.1‑8B and Qwen2.5‑7B show that, when combined with LoRA or DoRA, the method outperforms baseline PEFT approaches and remains competitive even after compressing the original parameter count by an order of magnitude.

arXiv AI
Oct 23

NormTune: Norm-Guided Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Reasoning-Intensive Tasks

NormTune introduces a norm‑guided approach to parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning (PEFT) for reasoning‑intensive tasks, addressing a performance gap caused by under‑adaptation in weight‑update norms. By adaptively strengthening layers with insufficient updates, NormTune consistently improves various PEFT methods across challenging benchmarks. Experiments show significant accuracy gains—up to 24.24% with rank‑8 LoRA on S1K‑1.1—while rank‑256 variants match full fine‑tuning performance.

By Zhangming Li, Qinghao Hu, Weifan Guan, Yifan Zhang, Peisong Wang, Jian Cheng
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 AI
Aug 18

SAPE: Sandwich Adapters for Parameter Efficiency in Large Language Model Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608. 15360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has substantially reduced the hardware cost of adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) by decreasing the number of trainable parameters, recent studies have sought to further improve PEFT through parameter sharing.

By Mohammad Aref Jafari-Raddani, Morteza Mohajjel Kafshdooz