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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · August 10, 2026
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This is an unreviewed preprint proposing FedAS-LoRA, a method to adaptively select which LoRA matrix factors to share across federated learning clients based on a new Rank-Aware Shared-Subspace Sufficiency metric. The abstract reports only that experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method but provides no numerical results, comparators, or details of validation.
Preprint. Intervention: FedAS-LoRA: federated learning with adaptive factor sharing selection using Rank-Aware Shared-Subspace Sufficiency metric to choose between Share-A/Local-B or Share-B/Local-A before training.
Share-A/Local-B and Share-B/Local-A strategies incur different projection residuals depending on whether input-side or output-side subspaces are shared FedAS-LoRA selects the optimal sharing strategy before training based on the RSS metric Experiments across different tasks, data distributions, LoRA ranks, and participation settings confirm effectiveness (no quantitative results reported)
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Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) represents large language model (LLM) updates with two compact matrix factors, i.e., $A$ and $B$, providing an efficient way to fine-tune large models in federated learning paradigm. Inspired by the asymmetric roles of the LoRA factors, we study whether $A$ should be shared across clients while $B$ remains client-specific (Share-A/Local-B), or whether $B$ should instead be shared while $A$ remains client-specific (Share-B/Local-A). With a least-squares surrogate, we reveal that Share-A/Local-B requires the client-specific LoRA update matrices to use a common rank-$r$ input-side space, whereas Share-B/Local-A requires a common rank-$r$ output-side space. The two strategies therefore incur different projection residuals, indicating that the preferred strategy is the one with the smaller aggregate residual across clients. With this insight, we propose Federated Adaptive Factor Sharing Low-Rank Adaptation (FedAS-LoRA), which selects the sharing side before training to enhance fine-tuning performance. To enable adaptive factor selection before training, we design a Rank-Aware Shared-Subspace Sufficiency (RSS) metric, which effectively assesses whether a shared rank-$r$ input subspace is sufficient for the local data distributions using representations extracted from a frozen LLM backbone. Experiments across different tasks, data distributions, LoRA ranks, and participation settings confirm the effectiveness of RSS and the superior performance of FedAS-LoRA.
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