Living systematic review
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA family)
Adapting large models by training a small number of added/low-rank parameters instead of full weights.
721 papers1,563 critique receipts6,581 benchmark resultsupdated Jun 18, 2026
Most-superseded baselines
Ranked by how many distinct papers critique or beat each method — the standard baselines newer work routinely measures against.
- 1LoRA
LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
194 critique · 201 beaten on benchmarks
- 2AdaLoRAin LoRA
AdaLoRA: Adaptive Budget Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
29 critique · 54 beaten on benchmarks
- 3DoRAin LoRA
DoRA: Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation
16 critique · 66 beaten on benchmarks
- 4PiSSAin LoRA
PiSSA: Principal Singular Values and Singular Vectors Adaptation of Large Language Models
14 critique · 30 beaten on benchmarks
- 5BitFitin LoRA
BitFit: Simple Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning for Transformer-based Masked Language-models
7 critique · 28 beaten on benchmarks
- 6Adapterin LoRA
Adapters: A Unified Library for Parameter-Efficient and Modular Transfer Learning
10 critique · 23 beaten on benchmarks
- 7FFA-LoRA
9 critique · 17 beaten on benchmarks
- 8MoELoRAin LoRA
MoELoRA: Contrastive Learning Guided Mixture of Experts on Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models
11 critique · 10 beaten on benchmarks
- 9QLoRAin LoRA
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
5 critique · 14 beaten on benchmarks
- 10Prefix-Tuningin LoRA
Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation
7 critique · 8 beaten on benchmarks
- 11Prompt Tuningin LoRA
9 critique · 6 beaten on benchmarks
- 12LoRA+in LoRA
LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
2 critique · 12 beaten on benchmarks
The competition
Methods that fight on the same benchmarks cluster into distinct sub-problems.
CNN30 methods
CNN · AIDE · Effort · LFT · frequency-based detectors · domain-specific fine-tuning
MC Dropout18 methods
MC Dropout · SNGP · Laplace-LoRA · SWAG-LoRA · Batch-Ensemble · SWAG
LISA19 methods
LISA · Cascade R-CNN · greedy layer selection (kaplun2023less) · LIFT · raw gradient norm · Sequential adapters
TimeSformer17 methods
TimeSformer · SAFE · MTLoRA · ORAA-net · SVFormer (Rizvi et al. 2024) · ZSC-CO
The frontier
Recent methods not yet superseded in the knowledge base.
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