LoRA

Code for loralib, an implementation of "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models" (by microsoft)

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  • DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    This seems to be an order of magnitude better than LoRa (https://lora-alliance.org/ not https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685). LoRa doesn't have all the features this one does like OFDM, TDM, FDM, and HARQ. I didn't know there's spectrum dedicated for DECT use.
  • Training LLMs Taking Too Much Time? Technique you need to know to train it faster
    1 project | dev.to | 3 Mar 2024
    So to solve this, we tried researching into some optimization techniques and we found LoRA, Which stands for Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models.
  • OpenAI employee: GPT-4.5 rumor was a hallucination
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2023
    > Anyone have any ideas / knowledge on how they deploy little incremental fixes to exploited jailbreaks, etc?

    LoRa[1] would be my guess.

    For detailed explanation I recommend the paper. But the short explanation is that it is a trick which lets you train a smaller, lower dimensional model which when you add to the original model it gets you the result you want.

    1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685

  • Can a LoRa be used on models other than Stable Diffusion?
    2 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 8 Dec 2023
    LoRA was initially developed for large language models, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685 (2021). It was later that people discovered that it worked REALLY well for diffusion models.
  • StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven Labs quality Text To Speech
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    Curious if we'll see a Civitai-style LoRA[1] marketplace for text-to-speech models.

    1 = https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA

  • Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconsensual AI Porn
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023
    From https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685:

    > LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

    > An important paradigm of natural language processing consists of large-scale pre-training on general domain data and adaptation to particular tasks or domains. As we pre-train larger models, full fine-tuning, which retrains all model parameters, becomes less feasible. Using GPT-3 175B as an example -- deploying independent instances of fine-tuned models, each with 175B parameters, is prohibitively expensive. We propose Low-Rank Adaptation, or LoRA, which freezes the pre-trained model weights and injects trainable rank decomposition matrices into each layer of the Transformer architecture, greatly reducing the number of trainable parameters for downstream tasks. Compared to GPT-3 175B fine-tuned with Adam, LoRA can reduce the number of trainable parameters by 10,000 times and the GPU memory requirement by 3 times. LoRA performs on-par or better than fine-tuning in model quality on RoBERTa, DeBERTa, GPT-2, and GPT-3, despite having fewer trainable parameters, a higher training throughput, and, unlike adapters, no additional inference latency.

  • Is supervised learning dead for computer vision?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2023
    Yes, your understanding is correct. However, instead of adding a head on top of the network, most fine-tuning is currently done with LoRA (https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA). This introduces low-rank matrices between different layers of your models, those are then trained using your training data while the rest of the models' weights are frozen.
  • Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2023
    Somewhat yes. See "LoRA": https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685

    They're not composable in the sense that you can take these adaptation layers and arbitrarily combine them, but training different models while sharing a common base of weights is a solved problem.

  • New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    With all the naive AI zealotry on HN can you really fault me?

    They're referring to this:

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685

  • Open-source Fine-Tuning on Codebase with Refact
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2023
    It's possible to fine-tune all parameters (called "full fine-tune"), but recently PEFT methods became popular. PEFT stands for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. There are several methods available, the most popular so far is LoRA (2106.09685) that can train less than 1% of the original weights. LoRA has one important parameter -- tensor size, called lora_r. It defines how much information LoRA can add to the network. If your codebase is small, the fine-tuning process will see the same data over and over again, many times in a loop. We found that for a smaller codebase small LoRA tensors work best because it won't overfit as much -- the tensors just don't have the capacity to fit the limited training set exactly. As the codebase gets bigger, tensors should become bigger as well. We also unfreeze token embeddings at a certain codebase size. To pick all the parameters automatically, we have developed a heuristic that calculates a score based on the source files it sees. This score is then used to determine the appropriate LoRA size, number of finetuning steps, and other parameters. We have tested this heuristic on several beta test clients, small codebases of several files, and large codebases like the Linux kernel (consisting of about 50,000 useful source files). If the heuristic doesn't work for you for whatever reason, you can set all the parameters yourself.
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