Read-only LoRA coupling preserves old skills while adding new ones

READ canonicalizes independently trained adapters, then lets each new adapter use prior representations without modifying their established interactions.

Top University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Xi’an Jiaotong University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Jinan University

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Li and colleagues introduce Read-only Expansion of Adapter Deltas, or READ, for incrementally combining LoRA task adapters into one model.

The authors represented a bank of LoRA adapters as stacked factors connected by a learned coupling matrix.

Why this paper

From Shanghai Jiao Tong University and 3 others

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Composing LoRA adapters by allowing new skills to read from old ones but never write to them prevents interference and improves multi-task model performance.

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