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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Low-rank trainable updates adapt a frozen pretrained model without updating all of its parameters.

Edward J. Hu et al.
2021-06 · Microsoft · Research paper
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@misc{hu2021lora,
  title = {LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models},
  author = {Edward J. Hu and Yelong Shen and Phillip Wallis and Zeyuan Allen-Zhu and Yuanzhi Li and Shean Wang and Lu Wang and Weizhu Chen},
  year = {2021},
  eprint = {2106.09685},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685}
}

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