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Post-Optimization Adaptive Rank Allocation for LoRA

Vishnuprasadh Kumaravelu, Sunil Gupta, P. K. Srijith

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Published 2026-04-30 · First seen 2026-05-01

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Exponential growth in the scale of modern foundation models has led to the widespread adoption of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique. However, standard LoRA implementations disregard the varying intrinsic dimensionality of model layers and enforce a uniform rank, leading to parameter redundancy. We propose Post-Optimization Adaptive Rank Allocation (PARA), a data-free compression method for LoRA that integrates seamlessly into existing fine-tuning pipelines. PARA leverages Singular Value Decomposition to prune LoRA ranks using a global threshold over singular values across all layers. This results in non-uniform rank allocation based on layer-wise spectral importance. As a post-hoc method, PARA circumvents the training modifications and resulting instabilities that dynamic architectures typically incur. We empirically demonstrate that PARA reduces parameter count by 75-90\% while preserving the predictive performance of the original, uncompressed LoRA across multiple vision and language benchmarks. Code will be published upon acceptance.

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@article{kumaravelu2026post,
  title = {Post-Optimization Adaptive Rank Allocation for LoRA},
  author = {Vishnuprasadh Kumaravelu and Sunil Gupta and P. K. Srijith},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Exponential growth in the scale of modern foundation models has led to the widespread adoption of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique. However, standard LoRA implementations disregard the varying intrinsic dimensionality of model layers and enforce a uniform rank, leading to parameter redundancy. We propose Post-Optimization Adaptive Rank Allocation (PARA), a data-free compression method for LoRA that integrates seamlessly into existing fine-tuning pipelines},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27796},
  keywords = {cs.AI},
  eprint = {2604.27796},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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