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Fine-Tuning series: 8 of 8

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Prof. Tom Yeh
Apr 24, 2026
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Fine-Tuning Series:

  1. Weight Update

  2. Pretrain vs Fine-Tune

  3. Full Fine-Tuning

  4. Freezing Layers

  5. Linear Probe

  6. Feature Extraction + Head

  7. Adapter Layers

  8. LoRA

Adapters showed that a low-rank bottleneck can specialize a frozen layer with far fewer parameters than a full ΔW.

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