arXiv AI

ACE: Adapter Consolidation across Experts for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of MoE LLMs

arXiv AI
Aug 18

LORA-CRAFT: Cross-layer Rank Adaptation via Frozen Tucker Decomposition of Pre-trained Attention Weights

arXiv:2602. 17510v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce LoRA-CRAFT (\textbf{C}ross-layer \textbf{R}ank \textbf{A}daptation via \textbf{F}rozen \textbf{T}ucker), abbreviated CRAFT throughout, an extremely parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method that applies Tucker tensor decomposition to pre-trained attention weight matrices stacked across transformer layers and trains only small square adaptation matrices on the resulting frozen Tucker factors.

By Kasun Dewage, Marianna Pensky, Suranadi De Silva, Shankadeep Mondal
arXiv AI
2d ago

Model Merging Does Not Require Uniform LoRA Ranks

The paper investigates whether model merging requires all experts to use the same LoRA rank. Experiments with 36 experts across three domains and multiple ranks show that allowing each expert its own optimal rank improves multi‑domain accuracy by up to 1.8 percentage points, while traditional uniform‑rank methods can even degrade performance. The authors attribute this to how merge methods select spectral components, arguing that rank can be chosen per expert when the merge operator does not rely on magnitude alone.

By Zirong Xie, Zainab Afolabi, Nikita Kozodoi, Jack Butler