Project Title

LoRA — Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Large Language Model Fine-Tuning

Overview

LoRA is an open-source Python package that enables low-rank adaptation of large language models, significantly reducing the number of trainable parameters while maintaining performance. This project stands out for its ability to adapt models to specific tasks with minimal storage requirements and without introducing inference latency, outperforming other adaptation methods like adapter and prefix-tuning.

Key Features

• Low-rank adaptation to reduce trainable parameters
• Efficient task-switching during deployment
• Comparable or superior results to full finetuning on GLUE benchmark
• Integration with PyTorch models, including those from Hugging Face

Use Cases

• Researchers and developers needing to adapt large language models to specific tasks with minimal resource overhead
• Enterprises looking to deploy models that can switch tasks efficiently without significant storage or latency penalties
• Academics and practitioners working on natural language processing tasks who require high performance with reduced computational costs

Advantages

• Reduces storage requirements for large language models adapted to specific tasks
• Enables efficient task-switching without inference latency
• Achieves performance comparable to or better than full finetuning with significantly fewer trainable parameters

Limitations / Considerations

• Currently only supports PyTorch, which may limit its applicability for projects using other frameworks
• The project is relatively new, and while it shows promise, long-term performance and stability are yet to be fully established

Similar / Related Projects

• Adapter: A method for adapting large language models that inserts small adapter modules into the pre-trained model. Unlike LoRA, it doesn't reduce the number of parameters as drastically.
• Prefix-Tuning: An approach that adds a learnable prefix to the input embeddings of a pre-trained model. It is less parameter-efficient compared to LoRA.
• Hugging Face's PEFT: A library that supports parameter-efficient fine-tuning, including LoRA. It offers a broader range of methods but may not be as specialized as LoRA.

Basic Information

• GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA
• Stars: 12,717
• License: Unknown
• Last Commit: 2025-09-23

📊 Project Information

• Project Name: LoRA
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA
• Programming Language: Python
• ⭐ Stars: 12,717
• 🍴 Forks: 837
• 📅 Created: 2021-06-18
• 🔄 Last Updated: 2025-09-23

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🔗 Related Resource Links

🌐 Related Websites

• State-of-the-art Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)
• RoBERTa (Liu et al., 2019)
• DeBERTa (He et al., 2020)
• 87.5±.3/86.9±.3
• 91.9±.1/91.9±.2

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