arXiv:2608. 15381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient federated fine-tuning of large language models, but its factorized parameterization creates a tension between accurate aggregation of local updates and continuity of locally optimized factors.
By Juseok Jeon, Ramy E. Ali, Doyun Kwon, Myungbeom Her, Jinhwi Kim, Jinhyun So
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient federated fine-tuning of large language models, but its factorized parameterization creates a tension between accurate aggregation of local updates and con...
arXiv:2608. 09742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) represents large language model (LLM) updates with two compact matrix factors, i.
By Xinyi Xu, Bingnan Xiao, Shuang Qin, Gang Feng, Tony Q. S. Quek
The paper introduces FedRoRA, a federated learning framework that combines Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) with rank‑heterogeneous personalization. It separates model adaptation into shared global directions and client‑specific rank‑wise magnitudes, using SVD on the server to extract a global subspace and a personalized projection with top‑k selection for each client. Experiments on natural language understanding and generation tasks show that FedRoRA outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art methods.
By Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang, Jie Xu
arXiv:2602. 23638v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated LoRA provides a communication-efficient mechanism for fine-tuning large language models on decentralized data.
By Haoran Zhang, Dongjun Kim, Seohyeon Cha, Haris Vikalo
arXiv:2505. 18877v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) lowers the computational and memory overhead of fine-tuning large models by updating a low-dimensional subspace of the pre-trained weight matrix.
By Yilang Zhang, Bingcong Li, Georgios B. Giannakis
arXiv:2606. 15963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of large language models using parameter-efficient methods such as LoRA enables privacy-preserving adaptation of foundation models.
By Muhammad Waseem, Nurbek Tastan, Andrej Jovanovic, Nicholas D. Lane, Nils Lukas, Karthik Nandakumar, Samuel Horvath
arXiv:2609.36986v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated LoRA fine-tuning enables parameter-efficient adaptation of pre-trained models without sharing private data, but suffers from two fundamental...
By Mengjun Yi, Langxing Yang, Suhan Guo, Furao Shen, Jian Zhao
arXiv:2607. 16252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method for large language models.
By Yupeng Chang, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang
arXiv:2601. 11219v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) for large language models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention as a privacy-preserving approach for adapting models over distributed data, where parameter-efficient methods such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) are widely adopted to reduce communication and memory costs.
By Zhikang Shen, Jianrong Lu, Haiyuan Wan, Jianhai Chen
The paper introduces αp-LoRA, a rank-allocation strategy for low-rank adaptation (LoRA) in large language models that uses π-regularization (0 < p < 1) to induce sparsity in rank-one components. By regularizing the energy of each component, redundant parts are encouraged to vanish while important ones are retained, and the authors derive a proximal subproblem that reduces the matrix optimization to a two‑dimensional thresholding criterion. Experiments on natural language understanding and question‑answering tasks show that αp-LoRA achieves performance competitive with existing LoRA baselines.
arXiv:2601. 21003v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models usually put more emphasis on accuracy and therefore, will guess even when not certain about the prediction, which is especially severe when fine-tuned on small datasets due to the inherent tendency toward miscalibration.
By Moule Lin, Shuhao Guan, Andrea Patane, David Gregg, Goetz Botterweck