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Equation 1 · Part 10 · Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs

multiplication

ΔW=BA,B∈Rd×r, A∈Rr×k, r≪min⁡(d,k),\Delta W = BA, \qquad B \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times r},\ A \in \mathbb{R}^{r \times k},\ r \ll \min(d, k),
multiplication

What this part means

Multiply the quantities on either side.

Its job in the formula

Multiply the quantities on either side.

The passage around this formula

When the adapter route is chosen, the engineering default within it is equally clear: adapt, do not retrain. Low-Rank Adaptation freezes the pretrained weights and injects a pair of small trainable matrices into selected layers, so that a weight update is expressed as a low-rank product rather than a dense matrix the size of the original layer, ΔW=BA,B∈Rd×r, A∈Rr×k, r≪min⁡(d,k)\Delta W = BA, \qquad B \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times r},\ A \in \mathbb{R}^{r \times k},\ r \ll \min(d, k). with the forward pass computing h = W0W_0 x + Δ\Delta W x against the frozen base weight W0W_0 . The method’s authors report reducing the number of trainable parameters by roughly ten thousand times and GPU memory requirements by roughly three times relative to full fine-tuning of a 175-billion-parameter model, while matching or…

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Multiplication scales one quantity by another. A dot, a cross, or adjacent symbols can indicate a product.

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