LoRA: The Genius Hack That Makes AI Training 1000x Cheaper 🚀
Last Updated on August 28, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): MahendraMedapati
Originally published on Towards AI.
How Low-Rank Adaptation is democratizing AI fine-tuning for everyone
Imagine you want to teach ChatGPT to write like Shakespeare. Using traditional methods, you’d need to:
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is an innovative approach that allows customization of large language models at a fraction of the cost, overcoming the prohibitive expense associated with traditional fine-tuning. It makes AI training accessible to smaller developers and researchers by cutting down the required computational resources significantly while preserving a high level of performance, thus facilitating broader innovation and adaptation in various fields relying on AI technologies.
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