提出一种新型微调方法,通过任务感知选择支持项提升效率与性能。
LOFT: Low-Rank Orthogonal Fine-Tuning via Task-Aware Support Selection

- 将正交微调拆解为子空间选择与变换两部分,统一现有方法框架。
- 任务感知的支持选择使在相同资源下性能更优,跨任务表现稳定。
- 适用于语言理解、视觉迁移等多场景,适合追求高效微调的研究者。
正交参数高效微调(PEFT)通过保持结构的乘法变换适配预训练权重,但现有方法常混淆两个不同设计:适应发生的子空间与该子空间内的变换方式。本文提出LOFT,一种低秩正交微调框架,明确分离这两个组件。将正交适应视为子空间的乘法旋转,LOFT提供统一形式,可还原坐标、蝴蝶、豪斯霍尔德及主子空间等代表性正交PEFT方法。更重要的是,这一视角揭示支持选择是核心设计维度而非特定参数化的副产品。我们进行一阶分析表明,有效适应支持应由下游训练信号指导,从而提出实用的任务感知支持选择策略。在语言理解、视觉迁移、数学推理及多语言分布外适应任务中,LOFT恢复主子空间正交适应,且梯度感知支持显著提升相同参数、内存与计算预算下的效率-性能权衡。结果表明,有原则的支持选择是改进正交PEFT的重要方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Orthogonal parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) adapts pretrained weights through structure-preserving multiplicative transformations, but existing methods often conflate two distinct design choices: the subspace in which adaptation occurs and the transformation applied within that subspace. This paper introduces LOFT, a low-rank orthogonal fine-tuning framework that explicitly separates these two components. By viewing orthogonal adaptation as a multiplicative subspace rotation, LOFT provides a unified formulation that recovers representative orthogonal PEFT methods, including coordinate-, butterfly-, Householder-, and principal-subspace-based variants. More importantly, this perspective exposes support selection as a central design axis rather than a byproduct of a particular parameterization. We develop a first-order analysis showing that useful adaptation supports should be informed by the downstream training signal, motivating practical task-aware support selection strategies. Across language understanding, visual transfer, mathematical reasoning, and multilingual out-of-distribution adaptation, LOFT recovers principal-subspace orthogonal adaptation while gradient-informed supports improve the efficiency-performance trade-off under matched parameter, memory, and compute budgets. These results suggest that principled support selection is an important direction for improving orthogonal PEFT.
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