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LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models

2024/02/19 by Soufiane Hayou, N. C. Ghosh, Nikhil Ghosh +4 · 3 voices · 67 citations
Computer Science · #Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning #Speech Recognition and Synthesis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2402.12354

Abstract

In this paper, we show that Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as originally introduced in Hu et al. (2021) leads to suboptimal finetuning of models with large width (embedding dimension). This is due to the fact that adapter matrices A and B in LoRA are updated with the same learning rate. Using scaling arguments for large width networks, we demonstrate that using the same learning rate for A and B does not allow efficient feature learning. We then show that this suboptimality of LoRA can be corrected simply by setting different learning rates for the LoRA adapter matrices A and B with a well-chosen ratio. We call this proposed algorithm LoRA+. In our extensive experiments, LoRA+ improves performance (1-2 % improvements) and finetuning speed (up to ∼ 2X SpeedUp), at the same computational cost as LoRA.

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