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PALoRA: Projection-Adaptive LoRA for Preserving Reasoning in Large Language Models

- 用奇异值分析定位推理所需的关键信息分布
- 新知识注入时避开核心推理方向,保留95%原始推理性能
- 仅增加0.006%参数量,适合需长期更新的模型
高效更新大型语言模型(LLMs)的新或演进的事实知识仍是核心挑战,因为即使是参数高效的适应也会侵蚀已习得的推理能力。这种矛盾反映了可塑性与稳定性之间的权衡:模型需融入新知识,同时保留对技能至关重要的表示。本文通过多层感知机权重矩阵的谱结构研究这一权衡。我们从理论和实证上表明,推理所需信息不仅集中在主导奇异方向,而是分布在奇异谱的各个部分。受此启发,我们提出PALoRA,一种两阶段知识注入框架,以减少干扰。PALoRA首先在推理数据集上训练一个奇异值微调(SVF)专家,并将其学习到的奇异值缩放向量作为冻结的几何探针,识别对目标技能至关重要的组件。随后,在结构正交约束下使用低秩适配(LoRA)进行事实知识注入,确保更新避开已识别的技能相关子空间。在Llama 3.1 8B和Mistral 7B上,跨数学、编码和科学推理基准测试中,PALoRA平均保留了SVF专家95%的推理性能,同时保持有竞争力的事实回忆率。其在技能保留方面持续优于先前的谱参数高效微调(PEFT)方法,且参数开销低于0.006%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Efficiently updating Large Language Models (LLMs) with new or evolving factual knowledge remains a central challenge, as even parameter-efficient adaptation can erode previously acquired reasoning abilities. This tension reflects a plasticity-stability dilemma: models must incorporate new knowledge while preserving skill-critical representations. In this work, we study this trade-off through the spectral structure of multilayer perceptron weight matrices. We show, both theoretically and empirically, that information essential for reasoning is not localized only in dominant singular directions, but is instead distributed across the singular spectrum. Motivated by this observation, we introduce PALoRA, a two-stage framework for knowledge injection with reduced interference. PALoRA first trains a Singular Value Fine-Tuning (SVF) expert on a reasoning dataset and uses its learned singular scaling vector as a frozen geometric probe to identify components that are critical for the target skill. It then performs factual knowledge injection with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) under a structural orthogonality constraint, ensuring that updates avoid the identified skill-relevant subspace. Across Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral 7B, and across mathematical, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks, PALoRA preserves on average 95% of the SVF expert's reasoning performance while maintaining competitive factual recall. It consistently improves skill retention over prior spectral Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods while adding less than 0.006% parameter overhead.
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