LoRA-FAIR: Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning with Aggregation and Initialization Refinement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14961v1
• Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:19:01 GMT
• Title: LoRA-FAIR: Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning with Aggregation and Initialization Refinement
• Authors: Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Letian Zhang, Jie Xu,
• Abstract summary: Foundation models (FMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks with task-specific fine-tuning. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) reduce this cost by introducing low-rank matrices for tuning fewer parameters. LoRA-FAIR maintains computational and communication efficiency, yielding superior performance over state-of-the-art methods.
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• Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks with task-specific fine-tuning, yet full parameter fine-tuning is often computationally prohibitive for large models. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) reduce this cost by introducing low-rank matrices for tuning fewer parameters. While LoRA allows for efficient fine-tuning, it requires significant data for adaptation, making Federated Learning (FL) an appealing solution due to its privacy-preserving collaborative framework. However, combining LoRA with FL introduces two key challenges: the \textbf{Server-Side LoRA Aggregation Bias}, where server-side averaging of LoRA matrices diverges from the ideal global update, and the \textbf{Client-Side LoRA Initialization Drift}, emphasizing the need for consistent initialization across rounds. Existing approaches address these challenges individually, limiting their effectiveness. We propose LoRA-FAIR, a novel method that tackles both issues by introducing a correction term on the server while keeping the original LoRA modules, enhancing aggregation efficiency and accuracy. LoRA-FAIR maintains computational and communication efficiency, yielding superior performance over state-of-the-art methods. Experimental results on ViT and MLP-Mixer models across large-scale datasets demonstrate that LoRA-FAIR consistently achieves performance improvements in FL settings.

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