UnoLoRA: Single Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Multitask Fine-tuning
Keywords: lora, multi-task learning, peft
TL;DR: Insights into using a single LoRA adapter for multi-task learning, and the actual low-rank representations and how they generalise across tasks.
Abstract: Recent advances in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) have shown Low- Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to be an effective implicit regularizer for large language models. Building on these findings, we propose UnoLoRA, a novel approach that leverages a single shared LoRA module for efficient multi-task learning. While existing methods typically use separate LoRA adaptations for each task, our approach demonstrates that a single shared adapter can effectively capture both task-specific and task-agnostic knowledge. We further introduce UnoLoRA*, an enhanced variant that employs a shared hypernetwork to generate task-specific embeddings, improving convergence and task adaptation. Our method significantly reduces trainable parameters to just 0.05% per task while maintaining competitive performance on the GLUE benchmark. Our analysis reveals that the A and B matrices in our shared LoRA adapter naturally develop complementary roles: A matrices capture generalizable features across tasks, while B matrices specialize in task-specific representations. Our results show that sharing a single LoRA adapter can achieve efficient multi-task learning while significantly reducing memory requirements, making it particularly valuable for resource-constrained applications.
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Primary Area: other topics in machine learning (i.e., none of the above)
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