LoRAQuant: Mixed-Precision Quantization of LoRA to Ultra-Low Bits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26690v2
• Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:01:21 GMT
• Title: LoRAQuant: Mixed-Precision Quantization of LoRA to Ultra-Low Bits
• Authors: Amir Reza Mirzaei, Yuqiao Wen, Yanshuai Cao, Lili Mou,
• Abstract summary: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a popular technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs)<n>We propose LoRAQuant, a mixed-precision post-training quantization method tailored to LoRA.<n>We conduct comprehensive experiments with LLaMA 2-7B, LLaMA 2-13B, and Mistral 7B models on mathematical reasoning, coding, and summarization tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a popular technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). In many real-world scenarios, multiple adapters are loaded simultaneously to enable LLM customization for personalized user experiences or to support a diverse range of tasks. Although each adapter is lightweight in isolation, their aggregate cost becomes substantial at scale. To address this, we propose LoRAQuant, a mixed-precision post-training quantization method tailored to LoRA. Specifically, LoRAQuant reparameterizes each adapter by singular value decomposition (SVD) to concentrate the most important information into specific rows and columns. This makes it possible to quantize the important components to higher precision, while quantizing the rest to ultra-low bitwidth. We conduct comprehensive experiments with LLaMA 2-7B, LLaMA 2-13B, and Mistral 7B models on mathematical reasoning, coding, and summarization tasks. Results show that our LoRAQuant uses significantly lower bits than other quantization methods, but achieves comparable or even higher performance.

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