Beyond Rotations: AuroOFT for Expressive Quantized Orthogonal Fine-Tuning
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Title:Beyond Rotations: AuroOFT for Expressive Quantized Orthogonal Fine-Tuning
Abstract:Quantized orthogonal fine-tuning (qoft) enables parameter-efficient adaptation of low-bit language models by learning structured activation rotations before frozen quantized weights. However, its task-specific updates remain constrained to linear orthogonal transformations, limiting input-dependent nonlinear corrections. We introduce AuroOFT, which keeps qoft as a stable quantization-compatible branch while attaching a zero-start gated low-rank nonlinear residual to each adapted linear layer. AuroOFT maps activations into an RMS-normalized compact latent space and uses adaptive nonlinear bases with bounded or token-dependent gating. The zero-initialized up projection makes AuroOFT functionally identical to qoft at initialization, while orthogonality remains a branch-level stability property rather than a property of the combined nonlinear layer. Under matched data, optimization, decoding, and parser protocols, AuroOFT improves Macro-6 over matched qoft by 1.30-2.70% on the 1.5B/3B Qwen2.5 settings, exceeds QLoRA by 6.52-10.62%, and saves 32.3-44.7% trainable parameters relative to QLoRA in representative scales. The small exam-style multiple-choice math set is treated only as a protocol-sensitivity diagnostic. Our code is available at the anonymous repository: this https URL.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2608.05253 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2608.05253v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.05253
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