Single queries can predict useful weight update distributions for LLM adaptation

Distributional hypernetworks generate LoRA adapters from input queries alone, outperforming deterministic methods and enabling test-time scaling through weight sampling.

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Azal Ahmad Khan · Keshav Ramji · Tahira Naseem · Ali Anwar · Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

University of Minnesota · IBM Research AI

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The authors introduce distributional hypernetworks, which predict a distribution over LoRA weight updates conditioned on a single input query.

The authors propose a differentiable Monte Carlo approximation to train a hypernetwork that outputs a distribution over LoRA updates for a query.

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A single query provides enough signal to predict a distribution over LoRA updates, enabling test-time scaling via weight sampling.

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