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arxiv: 2605.15916 · v1 · pith:AIMP2GHXnew · submitted 2026-05-15 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· cs.CV

LoCO: Low-rank Compositional Rotation Fine-tuning

An Nguyen , Jaesik Choi , Anh Tong This is my paper

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keywords parameter-efficient fine-tuningorthogonal transformationslow-rank adaptationrotation chainsskew-symmetric matricesPEFTmodel adaptation
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LoCO constructs orthogonal fine-tuning updates from low-rank skew-symmetric matrices in rotation chains.

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The paper presents LoCO as a parameter-efficient fine-tuning approach that builds orthogonal transformations by chaining low-rank skew-symmetric matrices into rotations. This targets the geometric distortion that occurs when standard low-rank updates like those in LoRA are applied without orthogonality constraints. An approximation scheme is introduced to compute the compositional rotations in parallel, which keeps the method usable for high-dimensional features while limiting the deviation from true orthogonality. Validation across diffusion transformer, vision transformer, and language model tasks shows results that match or surpass both orthogonal and non-orthogonal baselines. A sympathetic reader would see this as a way to adapt large models more faithfully to their original representation geometry without increasing parameter count.

Core claim

LoCO constructs orthogonal transformations through low-rank skew-symmetric matrices and compositional rotation chains. An approximation scheme enables fully parallel computation of these rotations, making the method practical for high-dimensional spaces while preserving orthogonality with controlled approximation error.

What carries the argument

Low-rank skew-symmetric matrices assembled into compositional rotation chains, combined with a parallel approximation for efficient evaluation.

If this is right

  • The fine-tuned weights remain closer to the original geometry because each update step is an approximate rotation.
  • Parallel computation keeps training cost comparable to standard low-rank methods despite the chain structure.
  • The bounded approximation error allows deployment in high-dimensional feature spaces without sacrificing the orthogonality property.
  • Results on vision, diffusion, and language tasks indicate the method is at least competitive with prior orthogonal and non-orthogonal PEFT approaches.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same low-rank rotation construction could be tested in continual learning settings to check whether orthogonality reduces interference between tasks.
  • Exact non-approximated versions might be feasible for medium-sized models, allowing direct measurement of how much the parallel approximation affects final performance.
  • Similar compositional ideas could be applied to other matrix groups beyond rotations, such as scaling or shear transformations in adaptation.

Load-bearing premise

Enforcing orthogonality through this low-rank compositional construction will preserve the geometric structure of pretrained representations enough to produce performance gains over existing PEFT methods.

What would settle it

If a side-by-side experiment on a held-out adaptation task shows LoCO achieving lower accuracy or higher error than a matched low-rank non-orthogonal baseline while using the same number of parameters, the claimed benefit of the orthogonal construction would be contradicted.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15916 by Anh Tong, An Nguyen, Jaesik Choi.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: An overview of LoCO. We parameterize each rotation component [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Relative error | ∥x∥ − ∥Rx∥ |/ ∥x∥ in first-order approx￾imations in Equation (5). This illustrates that our first-order approx￾imation can preserve vector magnitude under linear transformation R. In this experiment, we vary ∥X∥ = ∥Y∥ across a range of ε ∈ [10−6 , 10−0.5 ]. The shaded region indicates the standard devi￾ation across multiple random initializations of X and Y. chains require multiple composi… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Training efficiency comparison on DeBERTA-V3. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Effect of varying the temperature parameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Performance comparison on VTAB-1k benchmark across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: (a) Orthogonality deviation ∥R˜ ⊤R˜ − I∥F extracted from a trained diffusion model. (b) Distribution of perturbation norms ∥Zi∥F or ∥∆i∥F from the same checkpoint. Here, R˜ ∈ R 3072×3072 is a high-dimensional matrix. The deviation norm remains low (mean ≈ 0.1), indicating that the approximation roughly preserves vector norms under transformation. B Experimental Details B.1 Fine-tuning Large language models… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Training efficiency comparison on DeBERTA-V3, batch [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Training efficiency comparison on LLaMA2-7B batch size [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Efficiency comparison during training time on LLaMA2- [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Effect of varying the temperature parameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Effect of varying the temperature parameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative comparison of Canny edge-to-image generation. Columns show: input canny edges, ground truth, and outputs from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Qualitative comparison of deblurring image generation. Columns show: blurred input, ground truth, and outputs from LoRA, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Qualitative comparison of depth-to-image generation. Columns show: depth map input, ground truth, and outputs from LoRA, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Qualitative comparison of inpainting (fill) image generation. Columns show: masked input, ground truth, and outputs from LoRA, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_16.png] view at source ↗
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Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has emerged as an critical technique for adapting large-scale foundation models across natural language processing and computer vision. While existing methods such as low-rank adaptations achieve parameter efficiency via low-rank weight updates, they are limited in their ability to preserve the geometric structure of pretrained representations. We introduce Low-rank Compositional Orthogonal fine-tuning (LoCO), a novel PEFT method that constructs orthogonal transformations through low-rank skew-symmetric matrices and compositional rotation chains. We propose an approximation scheme that enables fully parallel computation of compositional rotations, making the approach practical for high-dimensional feature spaces. Our method maintains low computational complexity while maintaining orthogonality with controlled approximation error. We validate LoCO across diverse domains, including diffusion transformer fine-tuning, vision transformer adaptation, and language model adaptation. Our method demonstrates superior or competitive performance compared to both existing orthogonal and non-orthogonal methods.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes LoCO, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that constructs orthogonal transformations as products of matrix exponentials of low-rank skew-symmetric matrices arranged in compositional rotation chains. It introduces an approximation to enable fully parallel computation of these compositions, claiming this maintains orthogonality with controlled approximation error while remaining computationally efficient for high-dimensional spaces. The approach is evaluated on diffusion transformer fine-tuning, vision transformer adaptation, and language model adaptation, where it reports superior or competitive performance relative to both orthogonal and non-orthogonal PEFT baselines.

Significance. If the parallel approximation indeed preserves the orthogonality guarantee with error that remains small independently of dimension and depth, LoCO would provide a geometrically principled alternative to low-rank methods such as LoRA by better respecting the structure of pretrained representations. The multi-domain empirical validation offers preliminary evidence of practical utility, but the absence of a derived error bound weakens the theoretical foundation relative to the central claim.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method (approximation scheme)] The approximation scheme for parallel computation of compositional rotations (described in the method section following the construction of low-rank skew-symmetric matrices) lacks an explicit error bound. The abstract and method claim that orthogonality is maintained 'with controlled approximation error,' yet no derivation is provided showing that ||Q^T Q - I|| remains below a fixed threshold (e.g., 1e-4) independently of rank r, composition depth k, and dimension d; without such a bound the geometric invariance guarantee is not established.
  2. [Experiments] The experimental results across the three domains do not include quantitative monitoring of the approximation error (e.g., measured ||Q^T Q - I|| values during or after fine-tuning). This omission makes it impossible to verify that the reported performance gains are achieved under the claimed orthogonality control rather than despite uncontrolled drift.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract contains the grammatical error 'an critical' which should read 'a critical'.
  2. [Method] Notation for the low-rank skew-symmetric matrices and the composition operator could be introduced more explicitly with a single consistent definition to aid readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments correctly identify areas where additional theoretical analysis and empirical diagnostics would strengthen the presentation of LoCO. We address each major comment below and commit to the corresponding revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Method (approximation scheme)] The approximation scheme for parallel computation of compositional rotations (described in the method section following the construction of low-rank skew-symmetric matrices) lacks an explicit error bound. The abstract and method claim that orthogonality is maintained 'with controlled approximation error,' yet no derivation is provided showing that ||Q^T Q - I|| remains below a fixed threshold (e.g., 1e-4) independently of rank r, composition depth k, and dimension d; without such a bound the geometric invariance guarantee is not established.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript would benefit from an explicit derivation of the approximation error. The current text motivates the parallel scheme through its construction from low-rank skew-symmetric matrices and reports that orthogonality is preserved with controlled error, but does not supply a formal bound on ||Q^T Q - I||. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection deriving such a bound, showing that the deviation can be kept below a small constant (independent of d for fixed r and k) under standard assumptions on the step sizes used in the composition. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] The experimental results across the three domains do not include quantitative monitoring of the approximation error (e.g., measured ||Q^T Q - I|| values during or after fine-tuning). This omission makes it impossible to verify that the reported performance gains are achieved under the claimed orthogonality control rather than despite uncontrolled drift.

    Authors: We concur that reporting the realized orthogonality error is necessary to substantiate the practical control of the approximation. The original experiments emphasized downstream task metrics across diffusion transformers, vision transformers, and language models. In the revision we will include additional tables and/or figures that report the measured ||Q^T Q - I|| values both at initialization and after fine-tuning for each domain, thereby confirming that the observed performance occurs under the claimed level of orthogonality preservation. revision: yes

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No circularity: explicit new construction for orthogonal PEFT

full rationale

The paper presents LoCO as a novel method that constructs orthogonal maps from low-rank skew-symmetric matrices and introduces a parallel approximation for compositional chains. This is an independent proposal with stated approximation error control, not a redefinition or fit of prior quantities. No self-definitional equations, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided abstract or description. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not reduce to its inputs by construction.

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