arXiv:2604.08368cs.LGcs.CL2026-04

SOLAR用基础模型的奇异向量压缩适配器,大幅降低通信开销。

SOLAR: Communication-Efficient Model Adaptation via Subspace-Oriented Latent Adapter Reparametrization

  • 用基础模型奇异向量构造基向量,线性组合表达适配器更新
  • 在语言和视觉任务上将适配器大小减少80%以上,性能几乎无损
  • 兼容LoRA等方法,适合边缘设备和分布式系统部署

参数高效微调(PEFT)方法如LoRA通过注入低秩适配器实现大模型的可扩展适配,但在资源受限场景下仍面临通信与存储成本高的瓶颈。本文提出SOLAR(子空间导向的潜在适配器重参数化),一种后训练压缩框架,显著降低PEFT适配器的通信成本(即需传输或存储的参数数量)。SOLAR将每个PEFT更新表示为基于基础模型奇异向量并引入可控随机扰动形成的基向量的线性组合。通过利用基础模型与任务特定微调更新之间的子空间相似性(主方向对齐),SOLAR使适配器大小与PEFT结构解耦,确保紧凑且表达能力强的表示。该方法具备模型无关性,兼容现有PEFT方法,包括LoRA、AdaLoRA及其他适配器模块。我们理论上建立了重构误差上界。在LLaMA、GPT和ViT模型上的语言与视觉任务实验表明,SOLAR在保持任务性能的同时大幅减小模型表示尺寸,为分布式系统和边缘设备部署提供高效通信解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA, enable scalable adaptation of foundation models by injecting low-rank adapters. However, their communication and storage costs remain a major bottleneck in resource-constrained settings. We propose SOLAR (Subspace-Oriented Latent Adapter Reparameterization), a post-training compression framework that substantially reduces the communication cost (i.e., the number of parameters to transmit or store) of PEFT adapters. SOLAR expresses each PEFT update as a linear combination of basis vectors formed from the foundation model's singular vectors with controlled random perturbations. By exploiting the subspace similarity (the alignment of principal directions) between the foundation model and task-specific fine-tuned updates, SOLAR decouples the adapter size from PEFT structure and ensures compact yet expressive representations. It is model-agnostic and compatible with existing PEFT methods, including LoRA, AdaLoRA, and other adapter modules. We theoretically establish a bound on the reconstruction error. Experiments on language and vision tasks using LLaMA, GPT, and ViT models demonstrate that SOLAR preserves task performance while significantly reducing model representation sizes, offering an effective and communication-efficient solution for deployment in distributed systems and edge devices.

参数高效通信优化适配器压缩

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