PLoRA: Efficient Concurrent LoRA Training for Large Language Models

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has gained popularity as a fine-tuning approach for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to its low resource requirements and good performance. While numerous studies have investigated ways to improve LoRA serving efficiency by serving multiple Lo-RAs concurrently, existing methods assume that a wide range of LoRA adapters are available for serving. In our work, we conduct extensive empirical studies to show that current LoRA training paradigms do not efficiently utilize hardware resources and incur high overhead to obtain a performant LoRA adapter. Leveraging these insights, we propose PLoRA, which automatically orchestrates concurrent LoRA fine-tuning jobs under given hardware and model constraints and develops performant kernels to improve training efficiency. Across a range of LLMs and LoRA configurations, PLoRA improves training throughput by up to 12.8× and reduces the overall finetuning makespan by up to 7.52× compared to existing approaches.