# LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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- categories: T09 · tags: lora, peft, fine-tuning, foundational, level:established
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:18:06.328Z
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Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685

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  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "usefulness": "The foundational paper for LoRA, the adapter method behind most image/video-model style and character fine-tunes. Needed to reason about rank, trainable-parameter counts and why LoRA files are small.",
  "source_type": "paper",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Microsoft authors (Hu et al.)",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "Evaluates language models; application to diffusion/video models is by later work (see trainer repositories)."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": null
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Paper by Hu et al.; first submitted June 17, 2021, v2 revised October 16, 2021. · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
- [upstream_claim] Authors report LoRA freezes pretrained weights and adds trainable low-rank matrices per Transformer layer, matching or outperforming full fine-tuning on RoBERTa, DeBERTa, GPT-2 and GPT-3 while reducing trainable parameters and GPU memory, with no added inference latency (evaluated on language models, not diffusion models). · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

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