arXiv Machine Learning

Nonlinearity-Aware LoRA: Structured Gate Adaptation under Low-Rank Constraints

arXiv:2606. 31717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is commonly viewed as an update-space approximation to full fine-tuning, yet this view is incomplete for self-gated Transformer feed-forward networks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

AutoNorm: Understanding Adaptive Normalization in Transformers through Differentiable Gating

arXiv:2607. 10593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normalization is a critical component for stabilizing Transformer training, yet the choice between static strategies such as Layer Normalization (LN) and adaptive alternatives remains largely task-dependent.

By Piyush Kaushik Bhattacharyya, Divyanshu Rai, Swastik Singh, Kumar Aakash, Ayush Ranjan, Krutika Verma
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Dominant-Layer ZO: A Single Layer Dominates Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs

arXiv:2606. 05516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization enables memory-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) using only forward passes, but it remains unclear how useful adaptation is distributed across layers.

By Wanhao Yu, Ziyan Wang, Zheng Wang, Abeer Matar Almalky, Yihang Zuo, Shuteng Niu, Sen Lin, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Deliang Fan, Li Yang