Method Drift

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Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA family)

Adapting large models by training a small number of added/low-rank parameters instead of full weights.

721 papers · 1,563 critique receipts · 6,581 benchmark results · updated Jun 18, 2026

Most-superseded baselines

Ranked by how many distinct papers critique or beat each method. These are the standard baselines newer work routinely measures against.

  1. 1
    LoRA· LoRA
    LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

    194 papers critique it · 201 beat it on benchmarks

  2. 2
    AdaLoRA· LoRA
    AdaLoRA: Adaptive Budget Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

    29 papers critique it · 54 beat it on benchmarks

  3. 3
    DoRA· LoRA
    DoRA: Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation

    16 papers critique it · 66 beat it on benchmarks

  4. 7
    FFA-LoRA· FFA-LoRA

    9 papers critique it · 17 beat it on benchmarks

  5. 9
    QLoRA· LoRA
    QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

    5 papers critique it · 14 beat it on benchmarks

  6. 10
    Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation

    7 papers critique it · 8 beat it on benchmarks

  7. 11

    9 papers critique it · 6 beat it on benchmarks

  8. 12
    LoRA+· LoRA
    LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

    2 papers critique it · 12 beat it on benchmarks

Sub-problems

Methods that compete on the same benchmarks cluster into distinct sub-problems.

LoRA · 447 methods

LoRA · AdaLoRA · DoRA · PiSSA · BitFit · Adapter

InfLoRA · 133 methods

InfLoRA · O-LoRA · ZipLoRA · L2P · B-LoRA · DB-LoRA

FFA-LoRA · 76 methods

FFA-LoRA · FedIT · FlexLoRA · HetLoRA · FedEx-LoRA · FedSA

BLoB · 31 methods

BLoB · MAP · LAP · Random Forest · BLOB · FLare

MoLoRA · 25 methods

MoLoRA · ABot-M0 · AdaMoLE · CogVLA · Dita · FLOWER

CLIP-Adapter · 19 methods

CLIP-Adapter · CoOp · TaskRes · MaPLe · MMRL · PMC-CLIP

MC Dropout · 18 methods

MC Dropout · SNGP · Laplace-LoRA · SWAG-LoRA · Batch-Ensemble · SWAG

TimeSformer · 17 methods

TimeSformer · SAFE · MTLoRA · ORAA-net · SVFormer (Rizvi et al. 2024) · ZSC-CO

The frontier

Recent methods not yet superseded in the knowledge base.