RoSA: Enhancing Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via RoPE-aware Selective Adaptation in Large Language Models

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Autori principali: Pan, Dayan, Wang, Jingyuan, Zhou, Yilong, Cheng, Jiawei, Jia, Pengyue, Zhao, Xiangyu
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author Pan, Dayan
Wang, Jingyuan
Zhou, Yilong
Cheng, Jiawei
Jia, Pengyue
Zhao, Xiangyu
author_facet Pan, Dayan
Wang, Jingyuan
Zhou, Yilong
Cheng, Jiawei
Jia, Pengyue
Zhao, Xiangyu
contents Fine-tuning large language models is essential for task-specific adaptation, yet it remains computationally prohibitive. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods have emerged as a solution, but current approaches typically ignore the distinct roles of model components and the heterogeneous importance across layers, thereby limiting adaptation efficiency. Motivated by the observation that Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) induce critical activations in the low-frequency dimensions of attention states, we propose RoPE-aware Selective Adaptation (RoSA), a novel PEFT framework that allocates trainable parameters in a more targeted and effective manner. RoSA comprises a RoPE-aware Attention Enhancement (RoAE) module, which selectively enhances the low-frequency components of RoPE-influenced attention states, and a Dynamic Layer Selection (DLS) strategy that adaptively identifies and updates the most critical layers based on LayerNorm gradient norms. By combining dimension-wise enhancement with layer-wise adaptation, RoSA achieves more targeted and efficient fine-tuning. Extensive experiments on fifteen commonsense and arithmetic benchmarks demonstrate that RoSA outperforms existing mainstream PEFT methods under comparable trainable parameters. The code is available to ease reproducibility at https://github.com/Applied-Machine-Learning-Lab/RoSA.
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spellingShingle RoSA: Enhancing Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via RoPE-aware Selective Adaptation in Large Language Models
Pan, Dayan
Wang, Jingyuan
Zhou, Yilong
Cheng, Jiawei
Jia, Pengyue
Zhao, Xiangyu
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Fine-tuning large language models is essential for task-specific adaptation, yet it remains computationally prohibitive. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods have emerged as a solution, but current approaches typically ignore the distinct roles of model components and the heterogeneous importance across layers, thereby limiting adaptation efficiency. Motivated by the observation that Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) induce critical activations in the low-frequency dimensions of attention states, we propose RoPE-aware Selective Adaptation (RoSA), a novel PEFT framework that allocates trainable parameters in a more targeted and effective manner. RoSA comprises a RoPE-aware Attention Enhancement (RoAE) module, which selectively enhances the low-frequency components of RoPE-influenced attention states, and a Dynamic Layer Selection (DLS) strategy that adaptively identifies and updates the most critical layers based on LayerNorm gradient norms. By combining dimension-wise enhancement with layer-wise adaptation, RoSA achieves more targeted and efficient fine-tuning. Extensive experiments on fifteen commonsense and arithmetic benchmarks demonstrate that RoSA outperforms existing mainstream PEFT methods under comparable trainable parameters. The code is available to ease reproducibility at https://github.com/Applied-Machine-Learning-Lab/RoSA.
title RoSA: Enhancing Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via RoPE-aware Selective Adaptation in Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21733