A Lightweight Framework for Trigger-Guided LoRA-Based Self-Adaptation in LLMs

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Main Authors: Wei, Jiacheng, Wu, Faguo, Zhang, Xiao
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author Wei, Jiacheng
Wu, Faguo
Zhang, Xiao
author_facet Wei, Jiacheng
Wu, Faguo
Zhang, Xiao
contents Large language models are unable to continuously adapt and learn from new data during reasoning at inference time. To address this limitation, we propose that complex reasoning tasks be decomposed into atomic subtasks and introduce SAGE, a trigger-guided dynamic fine-tuning framework that enables adaptive updates during reasoning at inference time. SAGE consists of three key components: (1) a Trigger module that detects reasoning failures through multiple evaluation metrics in real time; (2) a Trigger Buffer module that clusters anomaly samples using a streaming clustering process with HDBSCAN, followed by stability checks and similarity-based merging; and (3) a Lora Store module that dynamically optimizes parameter updates with an adapter pool for knowledge retention. Evaluation results show that SAGE demonstrates excellent accuracy, robustness, and stability on the atomic reasoning subtask through dynamic knowledge updating during test time.
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spellingShingle A Lightweight Framework for Trigger-Guided LoRA-Based Self-Adaptation in LLMs
Wei, Jiacheng
Wu, Faguo
Zhang, Xiao
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Large language models are unable to continuously adapt and learn from new data during reasoning at inference time. To address this limitation, we propose that complex reasoning tasks be decomposed into atomic subtasks and introduce SAGE, a trigger-guided dynamic fine-tuning framework that enables adaptive updates during reasoning at inference time. SAGE consists of three key components: (1) a Trigger module that detects reasoning failures through multiple evaluation metrics in real time; (2) a Trigger Buffer module that clusters anomaly samples using a streaming clustering process with HDBSCAN, followed by stability checks and similarity-based merging; and (3) a Lora Store module that dynamically optimizes parameter updates with an adapter pool for knowledge retention. Evaluation results show that SAGE demonstrates excellent accuracy, robustness, and stability on the atomic reasoning subtask through dynamic knowledge updating during test time.
title A Lightweight Framework for Trigger-Guided LoRA-Based Self-Adaptation in LLMs
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05385