通过训练时临时增加参数提升模型泛化能力,推理时自动恢复为低秩结构。
Strategic Over-Parameterization for Generalizable Low-Rank Adaptation

- 训练时注入额外参数扩展优化空间,推理时通过重构机制还原为标准低秩结构
- 在多个任务上相比原LoRA平均提升3.2%~8.7%的性能,跨领域适应性显著增强
- 支持静态与动态两种容量调度策略,适合需要高效适配大模型的工程场景
全量微调大语言模型因计算和内存开销过大日益不可行。参数高效微调(PEFT)方法如低秩适配(LoRA)通过限制可训练参数数量缓解此问题,但过度压缩常损害泛化能力,尤其在异构任务与领域间迁移时。本文重新审视参数效率与适应能力之间的矛盾,提出一种名为LoRA-Over的新框架:训练阶段引入辅助参数扩大有效假设空间,推理阶段通过基于分解的重构方式将其折叠回标准低秩结构,重建误差极小,推理成本与原始LoRA一致。针对不同权重矩阵增益不均的问题,设计了静态预设与运行时动态决定两种容量调度策略。在语言理解(GLUE, T5-Base)、对话(MT-Bench)、算术推理(GSM8K)和代码生成(HumanEval)任务上,使用LLaMA 2-7B和LLaMA 3.1-8B进行评估,结果表明所有基准下LoRA-Over均持续优于原始LoRA,验证了设计为推理时消失的有意识过参数化是提升PEFT泛化性的有效手段。代码将在录用后发布。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks via full fine-tuning is increasingly impractical due to its computational and memory demands. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) approaches such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) mitigate this by confining updates to a compact set of trainable parameters, but this aggressive reduction often sacrifices generalization, especially under transfer across heterogeneous tasks and domains. We revisit the tension between parameter efficiency and adaptation capacity, and ask whether the two are truly at odds. We answer in the negative by introducing LoRA-Over, a framework grounded in a simple principle: enrich the optimization landscape during training, then collapse the enrichment at inference. LoRA-Over injects auxiliary parameters into the low-rank adapters during training to broaden the effective hypothesis space, and through a decomposition-based reformulation folds them back into a standard low-rank structure with negligible reconstruction error, keeping inference cost identical to vanilla LoRA. Since not all weight matrices benefit equally from added capacity, we further propose two scheduling strategies, one statically predefined and one dynamically determined at runtime, that direct extra capacity where most needed. We evaluate LoRA-Over on language understanding (GLUE, T5-Base), dialogue (MT-Bench), arithmetic reasoning (GSM8K), and code generation (HumanEval), using LLaMA 2-7B and LLaMA 3.1-8B. Across all benchmarks and scales, LoRA-Over consistently outperforms vanilla LoRA, showing that principled over-parameterization designed to vanish at inference is an effective lever for improving PEFT generalization. Code will be released upon acceptance.
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