arXiv Machine Learning

Spectral Transformation for Layer-wise Global Rank Discovery in Federated LoRA for Vision Transformers

arXiv:2607. 21074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning Vision Transformers (ViTs) with low-rank adapters (LoRA) promises better communication efficiency under federated setup, yet existing aggregation strategies face fundamental limitations.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Three-Pronged Spectral Control for Federated Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning

Federated parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) enables communication-efficient adaptation of large pretrained models on decentralized edge data, but it remains fragile under non-IID client heterogeneity. In low-rank adaptation (LoRA), different clients may learn locally useful but spectrally misaligned update subspaces, causing high-variance aggregation and poor global transfer.

arXiv AI
1d ago

FedPA-LoRA: Product-Aligned Framework for Mitigating Aggregation and Initialization Errors in Heterogeneous Federated LoRA

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Dysco: Dynamic Subspace Boosting to Mitigate LoRA Interference in Federated Learning

arXiv:2607. 14367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of large pre-trained models increasingly relies on Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to reduce communication and computation, but heterogeneous clients can make adapter aggregation unstable.

By Haobo Zhang, Jiankun Wang, Suraj Rajendran, Weishen Pan, Lam Tsoi, Yong Chen, Fei Wang, Jiayu Zhou