@inproceedings{
wen2023batched,
title={Batched Low-Rank Adaptation of Foundation Models},
author={Yeming Wen and Swarat Chaudhuri},
booktitle={Workshop on Advancing Neural Network Training: Computational Efficiency, Scalability, and Resource Optimization (WANT@NeurIPS 2023)},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=Lh9CKbFV2I}
}
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has recently gained attention for fine-tuning foundation models by incorporating trainable low-rank matrices, thereby reducing the number of trainable parameters. While LoRA offers numerous advantages, its applicability for real-time serving to a diverse and global user base is constrained by its incapability to handle multiple task-specific adapters efficiently. This imposes a performance bottleneck in scenarios requiring personalized, task-specific adaptations for each incoming request.

To address this, we introduce FLORA (Fast LoRA), a framework in which each input example in a minibatch can be associated with its unique low-rank adaptation weights, allowing for efficient batching of heterogeneous requests. We empirically demonstrate that FLORA retains the performance merits of LoRA, showcasing competitive results on the MultiPL-E code generation benchmark spanning over 6 languages.
Batched Low-Rank Adaptation of Foundation Models
Yeming Wen Swarat Chaudhuri