TaRA: Training-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation Initialization
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arXiv:2609.02639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a de facto standard for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), yet its performance is highly sensitive to initialization due to the information bottleneck imposed by low-rank decomposition. Existing approaches attempt to construct high-quality LoRA initializations by exploiting principal components of pretrained weights, activations, or gradients. However, these methods do not directly account for the training dynamics of the full-rank model. In this paper, we propose Training-aware Low-Rank Adaptation Ini
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.02639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a de facto standard for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), yet its performance is highly sensitive to initialization due to the information bottleneck imposed by low-rank decomposition.
- Existing approaches attempt to construct high-quality LoRA initializations by exploiting principal components of pretrained weights, activations, or gradients.
- However, these methods do not directly account for the training dynamics of the full-rank model.
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