MemFLoRA: Memory-Floor LoRA for CNN Adaptation at the Edge
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arXiv:2610.08669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device learning is necessary when the model encounters user-,sensor-, or environment-specific shifts after deployment. Although parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, particularly Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) variants, enable efficient adaptation at the edge, the limiting resource for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) adaptation is often not the number of trainable parameters but the activation state that must be retained until the backward pass. This paper introduces Memory-Floor LoRA (MemFLoRA), a low-rank CNN adapter built around
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.08669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device learning is necessary when the model encounters user-,sensor-, or environment-specific shifts after deployment.
- Although parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, particularly Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) variants, enable efficient adaptation at the edge, the limiting resource for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) adaptation is often not the number of trainable parameters but the activation state that must be retained until the backward pass.
- This paper introduces Memory-Floor LoRA (MemFLoRA), a low-rank CNN adapter built around
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