ChainDoRA: Tensor-Train Factorized Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) adapts large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks while updating only a small fraction of their pretrained parameters. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) uses two trainable low-rank matrices, while Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation (DoRA) further separates weight magnitude and direction but retains the dense LoRA-style factorization in its directional branch. We propose ChainDoRA, a weight-decomposed adaptation framework that constructs the directional low-rank factors from a connected Tensor-Train (TT) chain, where the adapter rank forms the boundary rank between input- and output-side TT contractions and an independent TT rank controls representa...
| Authors | Ashfak Yeafi, Mehedi Hasan, Md Khairul Islam |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 8 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 September 2026 |
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