AdaptSR: Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient and Scalable Real-World Super-Resolution
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| author | Korkmaz, Cansu Mehta, Nancy Timofte, Radu |
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| contents | Recovering high-frequency details and textures from low-resolution images remains a fundamental challenge in super-resolution (SR), especially when real-world degradations are complex and unknown. While GAN-based methods enhance realism, they suffer from training instability and introduce unnatural artifacts. Diffusion models, though promising, demand excessive computational resources, often requiring multiple GPU days, even for single-step variants. Rather than naively fine-tuning entire models or adopting unstable generative approaches, we introduce AdaptSR, a low-rank adaptation (LoRA) framework that efficiently repurposes bicubic-trained SR models for real-world tasks. AdaptSR leverages architecture-specific insights and selective layer updates to optimize real SR adaptation. By updating only lightweight LoRA layers while keeping the pretrained backbone intact, it captures domain-specific adjustments without adding inference cost, as the adapted layers merge seamlessly post-training. This efficient adaptation not only reduces memory and compute requirements but also makes real-world SR feasible on lightweight hardware. Our experiments demonstrate that AdaptSR outperforms GAN and diffusion-based SR methods by up to 4 dB in PSNR and 2% in perceptual scores on real SR benchmarks. More impressively, it matches or exceeds full model fine-tuning while training 92% fewer parameters, enabling rapid adaptation to real SR tasks within minutes. |
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| spellingShingle | AdaptSR: Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient and Scalable Real-World Super-Resolution Korkmaz, Cansu Mehta, Nancy Timofte, Radu Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Recovering high-frequency details and textures from low-resolution images remains a fundamental challenge in super-resolution (SR), especially when real-world degradations are complex and unknown. While GAN-based methods enhance realism, they suffer from training instability and introduce unnatural artifacts. Diffusion models, though promising, demand excessive computational resources, often requiring multiple GPU days, even for single-step variants. Rather than naively fine-tuning entire models or adopting unstable generative approaches, we introduce AdaptSR, a low-rank adaptation (LoRA) framework that efficiently repurposes bicubic-trained SR models for real-world tasks. AdaptSR leverages architecture-specific insights and selective layer updates to optimize real SR adaptation. By updating only lightweight LoRA layers while keeping the pretrained backbone intact, it captures domain-specific adjustments without adding inference cost, as the adapted layers merge seamlessly post-training. This efficient adaptation not only reduces memory and compute requirements but also makes real-world SR feasible on lightweight hardware. Our experiments demonstrate that AdaptSR outperforms GAN and diffusion-based SR methods by up to 4 dB in PSNR and 2% in perceptual scores on real SR benchmarks. More impressively, it matches or exceeds full model fine-tuning while training 92% fewer parameters, enabling rapid adaptation to real SR tasks within minutes. |
| title | AdaptSR: Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient and Scalable Real-World Super-Resolution |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07748 |