QLoRA is an efficient finetuning approach that reduces memory usage enough to finetune a 65B parameter model on a single 48GB GPU while preserving full 16-bit finetuning task performance . It backpropagates gradients through a frozen, 4-bit quantized pre-trained language model into Low-Rank Adapters (LoRA) .  LoRA is the predecessor of QLoRA. It is a low-rank adapter-based approach for efficient finetuning of large language models. LoRA uses a low-rank adapter matrix to project the high-dimensional output of a pre-trained language model to a lower-dimensional space, which is then used as input to a task-specific layer. The authors show that LoRA can be used to finetune large language models with up to 1.3B parameters on a single GPU with minimal loss in performance. QLoRA builds on LoRA and introduces several innovations to further reduce memory usage and improve performance. QLoRA introduces a number of innovations to save memory without sacrificing performance: (a) 4-bit NormalFloat

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