arXiv Machine Learning By Hyowon Wi, Noseong Park

Can Spectral-Clipping Enable Better Learning While Forgetting Less for Low-Rank Adaptation?

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arXiv:2608. 12332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a significant paradigm that freezes pre-trained weights and introduces small, learnable adapters instead of fine-tuning the full set of parameters.

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