arxivcs.LGmath.OC2026-07-24
On the Convergence of Stochastic Low-Rank Adaptation
Ru Wang, Chengchang Liu, John C. S. Lui
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) optimizes $J(B,A)=\mathcal L(W_\mathrm{base}+sBA)$ over two adapters $B \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times r}$ and $A \in \mathbb{R}^{r \times n}$ that form a low-rank update to a frozen pretrained weight matrix $W_\mathrm{base} \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$. The…