jargon

Applied AI·Fine-tuning and customisation

instead of editing the whole model, train a small patch that sits on top of it.

LoRA

Low-rank adaptation: freeze the base weights and train small low-rank matrices that add adjustments on top. Typically well under one percent of parameters are trained, and the output is a small adapter file rather than a new model. The default fine-tuning method almost everywhere.

Commonly confused with