arXiv:2508.00230cs.LGcs.CL2025-08ICCV被引 13

用克罗内克积提升低秩微调的表达能力,适合大模型高效适配。

Towards Higher Effective Rank in Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning using Khatri--Rao Product

  • 用克罗内克积构造高有效秩的参数更新,突破传统低秩方法局限。
  • 在10亿级视觉语言模型和80亿级大语言模型上显著提升推理性能。
  • 保持与LoRA相当的内存和计算开销,适合大规模模型微调。

参数高效微调(PEFT)已成为适配大型预训练模型的标准方法。其中,低秩适应(LoRA)取得了显著成功,但相比全秩方法,其在多模态和大语言模型上的表现受限。本文通过具有可控谱特性的合成矩阵逼近基准,定量比较了全秩与低秩PEFT方法。结果表明,LoRA难以逼近谱分布平坦或高频成分明显的矩阵——即高有效秩特征。为此,我们提出KRAdapter,利用克罗内克积生成权重更新,其结构天然倾向于产生高有效秩的矩阵乘积。实验显示,KRAdapter在10亿级视觉语言模型和80亿级大语言模型上均有性能提升,尤其在未见常识推理任务中效果显著。同时,其内存与计算开销与LoRA相当,是微调百亿级参数模型的实用且鲁棒的替代方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has become a standard approach for adapting large pre-trained models. Amongst PEFT methods, low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has achieved notable success. However, recent studies have highlighted its limitations compared against full-rank alternatives, particularly when applied to multimodal and large language models. In this work, we present a quantitative comparison amongst full-rank and low-rank PEFT methods using a synthetic matrix approximation benchmark with controlled spectral properties. Our results confirm that LoRA struggles to approximate matrices with relatively flat spectrums or high frequency components -- signs of high effective ranks. To this end, we introduce KRAdapter, a novel PEFT algorithm that leverages the Khatri-Rao product to produce weight updates, which, by construction, tends to produce matrix product with a high effective rank. We demonstrate performance gains with KRAdapter on vision-language models up to 1B parameters and on large language models up to 8B parameters, particularly on unseen common-sense reasoning tasks. In addition, KRAdapter maintains the memory and compute efficiency of LoRA, making it a practical and robust alternative to fine-tune billion-scale parameter models.

低秩微调克罗内克积大模型适配高效微调

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