AI Fundamentals
LoRA
Low-Rank Adaptation — a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique that freezes the base model and trains small rank-decomposition matrices instead. Reduces fine-tuning cost by 10-100× and enables swapping many task-specific adapters over a single base model.
Related terms
Also referenced: QLoRA.
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