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Act II · Scaling up

PaperMicrosoft

LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation

Freeze the big model and train only small low-rank matrices, cutting fine-tuning cost dramatically.

10,000×fewer trainable parameters for GPT-3 175B

Why it matters

Made it possible for ordinary people to fine-tune big models; most open-source fine-tunes since rely on it.

Led to

QLoRA

Source: arxiv.org ↗

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