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This research introduces DALorRA, a variational Bayesian framework that improves LLM calibration by applying stochastic masking to LoRA rank dimensions rather than dense parameters. By treating low-rank components as an ensemble, the method effectively reduces overconfidence during task-specific fine-tuning without sacrificing reasoning accuracy. The approach offers a principled path toward more trustworthy deployment of large language models through efficient uncertainty quantification.
Bayesian Sparse Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Model Uncertainty Estimation
arXiv:2607.02182v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable reasoning capabilities, but their task-specific fine-tuning is notoriously plagued by overconfidence, severely hindering trustworthy deployment. We propose Data-Adaptive Lower-Rank Adaptation (DALorRA), a simple and effective variational Bayesian sparse framework that shifts the paradigm of uncertainty quantification from the dense parameter space to the lightweight rank level of low-rank adaptation (LoRA). With the insight that LoRA essentially aggregates multiple rank-one components that may provide superfluous model capacity, DALorRA imposes stochastic masking on rank dimensions, enabling Bayesian regularization of model capacity during training and ensemble-like calibration during inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate DALorRA's excellent calibration of LLMs without compromising reasoning accuracy.
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable reasoning capabilities, but their task-specific fine-tuning is notoriously plagued by overconfidence, severely hindering trustworthy deployment. We propose Data-Adaptive Lower-Rank Adaptation (DALorRA), a simple and effective variational Bayesian sparse framework that shifts the paradigm of uncertainty quantification from the dense parameter space to the lightweight rank level of low-rank adaptation (LoRA). With the insight that LoRA essentially aggregates multiple rank-one components that may provide superfluous model capacity, DALorRA imposes stochastic masking on rank dimensions, enabling Bayesian regularization of model capacity during training and ensemble-like calibration during inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate DALorRA's excellent calibration of LLMs without compromising reasoning accuracy.
To appear in EMNLP 2026. 17 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2607.02182 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2607.02182v2 [cs.LG] for this version)
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