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What is LoRA and QLoRA?

Also known as: Low-rank adaptation, LoRA, QLoRA

LoRA (low-rank adaptation) fine-tunes a large model by freezing its original weights and training small low-rank matrices added to selected layers. QLoRA does the same on a 4-bit quantised base model, cutting memory further so large models can be tuned on a single GPU.

Because only the small adapter is trained and stored, one base model can serve many task-specific adapters.

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