Behaviorally Effective LoRA Writes Are Sparse and Structured
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The paper investigates which parts of a low‑rank adaptation (LoRA) update actually drive behavior in language models. It shows that behaviorally effective LoRA writes are sparse, structured, and highly concentrated, with only a few module‑wise components carrying most of the signal. Using a learned‑basis continuation recipe, the authors demonstrate that these sparse, structured writes can be recovered with minimal error and that they remain robust across different training continuations and evaluation tasks.
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. We identify the data-parameter interference as a geometric source of this instability.
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