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LoRA Explained by Doing It: Fine-Tune by Changing 2% of the Weights
Lesson 06: LoRA written by hand in a few dozen lines of PyTorch, training 2.11% of a 5.9M-parameter model on the same task as a full fine-tune. The adapter is 0.51 MB instead of 23.44 MB and merges back to within rounding. It was not faster per step, and it followed fewer requests. The real numbers.
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