Procedural Knowledge Is Not Low-Rank: Why LoRA Fails to Internalize Multi-Step Procedures
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arXiv:2607.21612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods like LoRA have become the default for adapting large language models, succeeding across instruction following, style transfer, and factual adaptation. We show that for procedural knowledge--the ability to follow multi-step procedures with conditional branching through to terminal states--LoRA fails to match full fine-tuning at the ranks where it retains its efficiency advantage. In a systematic ablation (r =…
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- arXiv:2607.21612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods like LoRA have become the default for adapting large language models, succeeding across instruction following, style transfer, and factual adaptation.
- We show that for procedural knowledge--the ability to follow multi-step procedures with conditional branching through to terminal states--LoRA fails to match full fine-tuning at the ranks where it retains its efficiency advantage.
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