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Increasing LoRA rank (8, 16 → 64) didn’t improve results — why?

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1 May
Post-Optimization Adaptive Rank Allocation for LoRA

arXiv:2604.27796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exponential growth in the scale of modern foundation models has led to the widespread adoption of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as a

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27 Mar
RYS Part 3: LLMs think in geometry, not language — new results across 4 models, including code and math

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s59rct/rys_part_3_llms_think_in_geometry_not_language/"> <img alt="RYS Part 3: LLMs think in geometry, not

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21 Apr
Technical question about matrix rank of linear layers in LLMs

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have a question I hope some of you llm experts can enlighten me on.</p> <p>In my baby understanding of LLMs there are a bunch of linear layers

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5 May
DeepSeek V4 being 17x cheaper got me to actually measure what I send to cloud vs what I could run locally. the results are stupid.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>That foodtruck bench post showing deepseek v4 matching gpt-5.2 at 17x cheaper got me thinking. if frontier cloud models are that overpriced for

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27 Mar
Anyone else getting garbage results fine-tuning on H200 in FP8 mode?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Been losing my mind trying to figure out why my H200 fine-tunes look fine during training then perform terribly. Validation loss looks

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12 Jun
The Hidden Power of Scaling Factor in LoRA Optimization

arXiv:2606.12883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), the scaling factor $\alpha$ is often treated as a mere complement to the learning rate, yet its role

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29 Sept
What Does the Rank Buy? A Spectral and Distributional Analysis of Low-Rank Adaptation

arXiv:2609.32002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rank $r$ in LoRA is widely treated as a capacity control: a smaller rank is assumed to yield a simpler model that generalizes

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15 Apr
Been trying to get Qwen 3.5 to stop reasoning using old methods like /no_think, it didn't work, but it said something like "too late" in its reasoning

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p>Wait, I need to be careful about the &quot;no_think&quot; tag in the system prompt. The system prompt says <code>/no_think</code>.

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