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Adaptive Utilization of Low-Rank Adaptation via Conditioned Gating

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The paper introduces U-LoRA, an adaptive version of Low‑Rank Adaptation that uses conditioned gating to generate token‑specific utilization coefficients for the low‑rank subspace. By coordinating these coefficients with sequence‑level context and applying a bias‑corrected EMA prior, U‑LoRA achieves more consistent adaptive patterns and reduces noise from batch fluctuations. Experiments on mathematical reasoning and natural language understanding tasks show that U‑LoRA matches or surpasses strong LoRA baselines while keeping the same parameter budget.

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