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Rethinking LoRA Initialization for Robust Asymmetric Learning Rates

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arXiv:2610. 32142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is often highly sensitive to learning-rate (LR) choices.

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