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"""
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA): fine-tuning a frozen language model by injecting tiny trainable
matrices — proving that weight updates live in a low-dimensional subspace.
"""
# Reference: Hu et al., "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models" (2021).
# https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
# Architecture reuses the microgpt pattern (Radford et al., 2019) with pedagogical
# simplifications: RMSNorm, ReLU, no biases. LoRA adapters applied to Q and V projections.
# === TRADEOFFS ===
# + Trains <1% of parameters while matching full fine-tuning quality
# + Multiple LoRA adapters can share a single frozen base model
# + No inference latency overhead: adapter weights merge into base at deployment
# - Low rank limits expressiveness for tasks requiring large weight changes
# - Choosing which layers to adapt requires experimentation
# - Cannot change the model's fundamental capabilities, only steer behavior
# WHEN TO USE: Fine-tuning large pretrained models for specific tasks when
# compute or memory is limited. Standard for LLM customization.
# WHEN NOT TO: When the task requires fundamentally new capabilities not present
# in the base model, or when full fine-tuning is affordable and data is abundant.
from __future__ import annotations
import math
import os
import random
import urllib.request
random.seed(42)
# === CONSTANTS AND HYPERPARAMETERS ===
# Model architecture — identical to microgpt for direct comparison
N_EMBD = 16 # embedding dimension (d_model)
N_HEAD = 4 # number of attention heads
N_LAYER = 1 # transformer blocks
BLOCK_SIZE = 16 # context window length
HEAD_DIM = N_EMBD // N_HEAD # 4 dimensions per head
# LoRA hyperparameters
LORA_RANK = 2 # rank of the adaptation matrices (r << d_model)
# Rank 2 means each adapter pair contributes a rank-2 perturbation to the weight matrix.
# Production LoRA typically uses r=4..64. With d_model=16, even r=2 captures meaningful
# structure while keeping the parameter count visibly small for demonstration.
# Training — base model
BASE_LR = 0.01
BASE_STEPS = 800
# Training — LoRA adaptation
LORA_LR = 0.01
LORA_STEPS = 500
# Shared optimizer constants
BETA1 = 0.85
BETA2 = 0.99
EPS_ADAM = 1e-8
# Data
DATA_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karpathy/makemore/master/names.txt"
DATA_FILE = "names.txt"
# Signpost: ~4,200 base parameters. Production models have billions. LoRA's value becomes
# dramatic at scale: adapting a 7B model with r=16 means training ~0.1% of parameters.
# At our toy scale the ratio is less extreme but the mechanism is identical.
# === DATA LOADING ===
def load_data(url: str, filename: str) -> list[str]:
"""Download and parse the training corpus."""
if not os.path.exists(filename):
print(f"Downloading {filename}...")
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)
with open(filename, "r") as f:
docs = [line.strip() for line in f if line.strip()]
return docs
# === SCALAR AUTOGRAD ENGINE ===
class Value:
"""A scalar value with reverse-mode automatic differentiation.
Every forward operation records its local derivative (dout/dinput). backward()
replays the computation graph in reverse topological order, accumulating gradients
via the chain rule: dLoss/dx = sum over paths (product of local gradients along path).
"""
__slots__ = ('data', 'grad', '_children', '_local_grads')
def __init__(self, data: float, children: tuple = (), local_grads: tuple = ()) -> None:
self.data = data
self.grad = 0.0
self._children = children
self._local_grads = local_grads
def __add__(self, other: Value | float) -> Value:
other = other if isinstance(other, Value) else Value(other)
return Value(self.data + other.data, (self, other), (1, 1))
def __mul__(self, other: Value | float) -> Value:
other = other if isinstance(other, Value) else Value(other)
return Value(self.data * other.data, (self, other), (other.data, self.data))
def __pow__(self, exponent: float) -> Value:
return Value(self.data ** exponent, (self,), (exponent * self.data ** (exponent - 1),))
def __neg__(self) -> Value: return self * -1
def __radd__(self, other: float) -> Value: return self + other
def __sub__(self, other: Value | float) -> Value: return self + (-other)
def __rsub__(self, other: float) -> Value: return other + (-self)
def __rmul__(self, other: float) -> Value: return self * other
def __truediv__(self, other: Value | float) -> Value: return self * (other ** -1)
def __rtruediv__(self, other: float) -> Value: return other * (self ** -1)
def tanh(self) -> Value:
t = math.tanh(self.data)
return Value(t, (self,), (1 - t ** 2,))
def exp(self) -> Value:
e = math.exp(self.data)
return Value(e, (self,), (e,))
def log(self) -> Value:
return Value(math.log(self.data), (self,), (1 / self.data,))
def relu(self) -> Value:
return Value(max(0, self.data), (self,), (float(self.data > 0),))
def backward(self) -> None:
"""Reverse-mode autodiff via topological sort of the computation graph."""
topo: list[Value] = []
visited: set[int] = set()
def build_topo(v: Value) -> None:
if id(v) not in visited:
visited.add(id(v))
for child in v._children:
build_topo(child)
topo.append(v)
build_topo(self)
self.grad = 1.0
for v in reversed(topo):
for child, local_grad in zip(v._children, v._local_grads):
child.grad += local_grad * v.grad
# --- AUTOGRAD IN THIS SCRIPT ---
# This Value class follows the canonical interface exactly.
# See docs/autograd-interface.md for the full specification.
# === PARAMETER INITIALIZATION ===
def make_matrix(nrows: int, ncols: int, std: float = 0.08) -> list[list[Value]]:
"""Initialize weight matrix ~ N(0, std). Standard deviation 0.08 is empirically tuned
for this tiny model; larger models use Xavier/Glorot scaling (std = 1/sqrt(d_in))."""
return [[Value(random.gauss(0, std)) for _ in range(ncols)] for _ in range(nrows)]
def make_lora_A(nrows: int, ncols: int) -> list[list[Value]]:
"""Initialize LoRA A matrix ~ N(0, 0.02).
Small random init ensures the two adapters (A and B) break symmetry. Since B starts
at zero, the initial LoRA contribution is A @ 0 = 0 regardless of A's values — but
once B starts learning, A's random directions provide diverse gradient signals."""
return [[Value(random.gauss(0, 0.02)) for _ in range(ncols)] for _ in range(nrows)]
def make_lora_B(nrows: int, ncols: int) -> list[list[Value]]:
"""Initialize LoRA B matrix to zeros.
# Math: W_adapted = W_frozen + A @ B
# At init: A @ B = A @ 0 = 0, so the adapted model is identical to the base model.
# This is critical: it means LoRA starts from the pretrained solution and makes
# small perturbations, rather than starting from a random offset that would
# immediately destroy what the base model learned."""
return [[Value(0.0) for _ in range(ncols)] for _ in range(nrows)]
def init_parameters(vocab_size: int) -> dict[str, list[list[Value]]]:
"""Initialize all base model parameters: embeddings, attention, MLP, and LM head."""
params: dict[str, list[list[Value]]] = {}
params['wte'] = make_matrix(vocab_size, N_EMBD)
params['wpe'] = make_matrix(BLOCK_SIZE, N_EMBD)
for layer_idx in range(N_LAYER):
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wq'] = make_matrix(N_EMBD, N_EMBD)
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wk'] = make_matrix(N_EMBD, N_EMBD)
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wv'] = make_matrix(N_EMBD, N_EMBD)
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wo'] = make_matrix(N_EMBD, N_EMBD)
# MLP: expand 4x then contract (GPT convention for feedforward capacity)
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.mlp_fc1'] = make_matrix(4 * N_EMBD, N_EMBD)
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.mlp_fc2'] = make_matrix(N_EMBD, 4 * N_EMBD)
params['lm_head'] = make_matrix(vocab_size, N_EMBD)
return params
def init_lora_adapters() -> dict[str, list[list[Value]]]:
"""Create LoRA adapter matrices for Q and V attention projections.
Why Q and V, not K or O? The original LoRA paper (Hu et al., 2021) found that
adapting Q and V projections captures the most task-relevant information per parameter.
Intuitively: Q controls "what to look for" and V controls "what to extract" — both
are highly task-specific. K ("what to advertise") and O ("how to combine") change less
across tasks. Production LoRA often adapts all four for maximum quality.
"""
adapters: dict[str, list[list[Value]]] = {}
for layer_idx in range(N_LAYER):
# Q adapter: A is (N_EMBD, LORA_RANK), B is (LORA_RANK, N_EMBD)
# Math: Q_adapted = W_q @ x + A_q @ (B_q @ x)
# where A_q @ B_q is a rank-r perturbation to W_q
adapters[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_q_A'] = make_lora_A(N_EMBD, LORA_RANK)
adapters[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_q_B'] = make_lora_B(LORA_RANK, N_EMBD)
# V adapter: same structure
adapters[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_v_A'] = make_lora_A(N_EMBD, LORA_RANK)
adapters[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_v_B'] = make_lora_B(LORA_RANK, N_EMBD)
return adapters
# === CORE OPERATIONS ===
def linear(x: list[Value], w: list[list[Value]]) -> list[Value]:
"""Matrix-vector multiply: y = W @ x. For W of shape [n_out, n_in] and x of shape
[n_in], output y has shape [n_out] where y[i] = sum_j W[i,j] * x[j]."""
return [sum(w_row[j] * x[j] for j in range(len(x))) for w_row in w]
def lora_linear(
x: list[Value],
w_frozen: list[list[Value]],
lora_A: list[list[Value]],
lora_B: list[list[Value]],
) -> list[Value]:
"""LoRA-augmented linear operation: y = W_frozen @ x + A @ (B @ x).
Math: W_adapted = W_frozen + A @ B (but we never form this explicitly)
Instead we compute: base_out = W_frozen @ x (shape: d_out)
lora_mid = B @ x (shape: r) -- project to low rank
lora_out = A @ lora_mid (shape: d_out) -- project back up
result = base_out + lora_out
The low-rank bottleneck (r=2) means the adaptation can only modify the output
in a 2-dimensional subspace. This is not a limitation — it's the insight:
fine-tuning weight updates are empirically low-rank, so a rank-2 perturbation
captures most of the useful adaptation signal.
Signpost: Production LoRA also applies a scaling factor alpha/r to the adapter
output. We omit this because at r=2 the effect is absorbed into the learning rate.
"""
base_out = linear(x, w_frozen)
# B projects from d_in to r (compression step)
lora_hidden = linear(x, lora_B)
# A projects from r back to d_out (expansion step)
lora_out = linear(lora_hidden, lora_A)
return [b + l for b, l in zip(base_out, lora_out)]
def softmax(logits: list[Value]) -> list[Value]:
"""Stable softmax: subtract max before exp to prevent overflow.
softmax(x_i) = exp(x_i - max(x)) / sum_j exp(x_j - max(x))"""
max_val = max(v.data for v in logits)
exp_vals = [(v - max_val).exp() for v in logits]
total = sum(exp_vals)
return [e / total for e in exp_vals]
def rmsnorm(x: list[Value]) -> list[Value]:
"""RMS normalization: x / sqrt(mean(x^2) + eps).
Simpler than LayerNorm (no mean centering, no learned affine). Used in LLaMA, Gemma."""
mean_sq = sum(xi * xi for xi in x) / len(x)
scale = (mean_sq + 1e-5) ** -0.5
return [xi * scale for xi in x]
def safe_log(prob: Value) -> Value:
"""Clipped log for numerical stability. Prevents log(0) = -inf which would break
gradient propagation. The node is built manually with prob as its child so
gradients flow back through the computation graph (not severed by clamping)."""
clamped = max(prob.data, 1e-10)
return Value(math.log(clamped), (prob,), (1.0 / clamped,))
# === GPT FORWARD PASS ===
def gpt_forward(
token_id: int,
pos_id: int,
keys: list[list[list[Value]]],
values: list[list[list[Value]]],
params: dict[str, list[list[Value]]],
lora: dict[str, list[list[Value]]] | None = None,
) -> list[Value]:
"""Single-token forward pass. When lora is provided, Q and V projections use
LoRA-augmented linear operations; all other weights remain frozen.
The key insight: the forward pass is structurally identical whether or not LoRA
is active. The only difference is that Q and V computations go through lora_linear()
instead of linear(). This composability is why LoRA is so practical — it requires
zero changes to the model architecture, only to selected weight applications.
"""
# Embedding: token identity + positional encoding
tok_emb = params['wte'][token_id]
pos_emb = params['wpe'][pos_id]
x = [t + p for t, p in zip(tok_emb, pos_emb)]
x = rmsnorm(x)
for layer_idx in range(N_LAYER):
x_residual = x
x = rmsnorm(x)
# Q and V use LoRA adapters when available; K and O are always base-only.
if lora is not None:
q = lora_linear(
x,
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wq'],
lora[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_q_A'],
lora[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_q_B'],
)
v_proj = lora_linear(
x,
params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wv'],
lora[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_v_A'],
lora[f'layer{layer_idx}.lora_v_B'],
)
else:
q = linear(x, params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wq'])
v_proj = linear(x, params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wv'])
k = linear(x, params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wk'])
keys[layer_idx].append(k)
values[layer_idx].append(v_proj)
# Multi-head attention: each head operates on a HEAD_DIM slice
x_attn: list[Value] = []
for head in range(N_HEAD):
hs = head * HEAD_DIM
q_head = q[hs : hs + HEAD_DIM]
k_head = [k_t[hs : hs + HEAD_DIM] for k_t in keys[layer_idx]]
v_head = [v_t[hs : hs + HEAD_DIM] for v_t in values[layer_idx]]
# Scaled dot-product attention: score = (q . k) / sqrt(d_head)
attn_logits = [
sum(q_head[j] * k_head[t][j] for j in range(HEAD_DIM)) / (HEAD_DIM ** 0.5)
for t in range(len(k_head))
]
attn_weights = softmax(attn_logits)
head_output = [
sum(attn_weights[t] * v_head[t][j] for t in range(len(v_head)))
for j in range(HEAD_DIM)
]
x_attn.extend(head_output)
x = linear(x_attn, params[f'layer{layer_idx}.attn_wo'])
x = [a + b for a, b in zip(x, x_residual)]
x_residual = x
# MLP block: expand 4x, ReLU, contract
x = rmsnorm(x)
x = linear(x, params[f'layer{layer_idx}.mlp_fc1'])
x = [xi.relu() for xi in x]
x = linear(x, params[f'layer{layer_idx}.mlp_fc2'])
x = [a + b for a, b in zip(x, x_residual)]
return linear(x, params['lm_head'])
# === OPTIMIZER ===
def adam_step(
param_list: list[Value],
m_state: list[float],
v_state: list[float],
step: int,
lr: float,
) -> None:
"""One Adam update step with bias correction and linear LR decay.
Adam maintains per-parameter momentum (m) and variance (v) estimates.
Bias correction compensates for the zero initialization of m and v,
which would otherwise make early updates too small.
"""
lr_t = lr * (1 - step / max(step + 1, 1))
for i, param in enumerate(param_list):
m_state[i] = BETA1 * m_state[i] + (1 - BETA1) * param.grad
v_state[i] = BETA2 * v_state[i] + (1 - BETA2) * param.grad ** 2
m_hat = m_state[i] / (1 - BETA1 ** (step + 1))
v_hat = v_state[i] / (1 - BETA2 ** (step + 1))
param.data -= lr_t * m_hat / (v_hat ** 0.5 + EPS_ADAM)
param.grad = 0.0
def flatten_params(params: dict[str, list[list[Value]]]) -> list[Value]:
"""Collect all Value objects from a parameter dict into a flat list."""
return [p for matrix in params.values() for row in matrix for p in row]
# === EVALUATION ===
def evaluate_loss(
docs: list[str],
unique_chars: list[str],
bos: int,
vocab_size: int,
params: dict[str, list[list[Value]]],
lora: dict[str, list[list[Value]]] | None = None,
num_samples: int = 50,
) -> float:
"""Compute average cross-entropy loss over a sample of documents.
Uses .data only (no gradient tracking) for efficiency."""
total_loss = 0.0
total_tokens = 0
for idx in range(min(num_samples, len(docs))):
doc = docs[idx]
tokens = [bos] + [unique_chars.index(ch) for ch in doc] + [bos]
seq_len = min(BLOCK_SIZE, len(tokens) - 1)
keys = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
vals = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
for pos in range(seq_len):
logits = gpt_forward(tokens[pos], pos, keys, vals, params, lora)
probs = softmax(logits)
prob_target = max(probs[tokens[pos + 1]].data, 1e-10)
total_loss += -math.log(prob_target)
total_tokens += 1
return total_loss / total_tokens if total_tokens > 0 else float('inf')
def generate_names(
params: dict[str, list[list[Value]]],
unique_chars: list[str],
bos: int,
vocab_size: int,
lora: dict[str, list[list[Value]]] | None = None,
num_samples: int = 5,
temperature: float = 0.5,
) -> list[str]:
"""Generate names by autoregressively sampling from the model."""
results: list[str] = []
for _ in range(num_samples):
keys = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
vals = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
token_id = bos
generated: list[str] = []
for pos in range(BLOCK_SIZE):
logits = gpt_forward(token_id, pos, keys, vals, params, lora)
scaled = [logit / temperature for logit in logits]
probs = softmax(scaled)
token_id = random.choices(
range(vocab_size), weights=[p.data for p in probs]
)[0]
if token_id == bos:
break
generated.append(unique_chars[token_id])
results.append(''.join(generated))
return results
# === TRAINING ===
if __name__ == "__main__":
# -- Load and split data --
print("Loading data...")
docs = load_data(DATA_URL, DATA_FILE)
print(f"Loaded {len(docs)} documents")
# Split by first letter: A-M for base training, N-Z for LoRA adaptation.
# This creates a clean distribution shift — the two halves have different character
# frequency distributions (e.g., N-Z names are heavier on letters n, s, t, r).
# LoRA must adapt the model's learned character statistics without retraining from scratch.
base_docs = [d for d in docs if d[0].upper() <= 'M']
lora_docs = [d for d in docs if d[0].upper() > 'M']
random.shuffle(base_docs)
random.shuffle(lora_docs)
print(f"Base training set: {len(base_docs)} names (A-M)")
print(f"LoRA adaptation set: {len(lora_docs)} names (N-Z)")
# Build vocabulary from the full corpus (both splits share the same character set)
unique_chars = sorted(set(''.join(docs)))
BOS = len(unique_chars)
VOCAB_SIZE = len(unique_chars) + 1
# === Phase A: Base Model Training ===
print("\n=== Phase A: Base Model Training ===")
params = init_parameters(VOCAB_SIZE)
base_param_list = flatten_params(params)
print(f"Parameters: {len(base_param_list):,}")
m_base = [0.0] * len(base_param_list)
v_base = [0.0] * len(base_param_list)
for step in range(BASE_STEPS):
doc = base_docs[step % len(base_docs)]
tokens = [BOS] + [unique_chars.index(ch) for ch in doc] + [BOS]
seq_len = min(BLOCK_SIZE, len(tokens) - 1)
keys = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
vals = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
losses: list[Value] = []
for pos in range(seq_len):
logits = gpt_forward(tokens[pos], pos, keys, vals, params)
probs = softmax(logits)
losses.append(-safe_log(probs[tokens[pos + 1]]))
loss = (1.0 / seq_len) * sum(losses)
loss.backward()
# Linear LR decay prevents overshooting as the loss landscape sharpens near the optimum
lr_t = BASE_LR * (1 - step / BASE_STEPS)
for i, p in enumerate(base_param_list):
m_base[i] = BETA1 * m_base[i] + (1 - BETA1) * p.grad
v_base[i] = BETA2 * v_base[i] + (1 - BETA2) * p.grad ** 2
m_hat = m_base[i] / (1 - BETA1 ** (step + 1))
v_hat = v_base[i] / (1 - BETA2 ** (step + 1))
p.data -= lr_t * m_hat / (v_hat ** 0.5 + EPS_ADAM)
p.grad = 0.0
if (step + 1) % 100 == 0 or step == 0:
print(f" step {step + 1:>4}/{BASE_STEPS} | loss: {loss.data:.4f}")
print(f"Base training complete. Final loss: {loss.data:.4f}")
# === Phase B: LoRA Adaptation ===
print("\n=== Phase B: LoRA Adaptation ===")
lora_adapters = init_lora_adapters()
lora_param_list = flatten_params(lora_adapters)
print(f"Base parameters (frozen): {len(base_param_list):,}")
print(f"LoRA parameters (trainable): {len(lora_param_list):,}")
print(f"LoRA rank: {LORA_RANK}")
print(f"Adapted matrices: Q, V projections")
m_lora = [0.0] * len(lora_param_list)
v_lora = [0.0] * len(lora_param_list)
for step in range(LORA_STEPS):
doc = lora_docs[step % len(lora_docs)]
tokens = [BOS] + [unique_chars.index(ch) for ch in doc] + [BOS]
seq_len = min(BLOCK_SIZE, len(tokens) - 1)
keys = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
vals = [[] for _ in range(N_LAYER)]
losses = []
for pos in range(seq_len):
# Forward pass uses LoRA-augmented Q and V projections
logits = gpt_forward(tokens[pos], pos, keys, vals, params, lora_adapters)
probs = softmax(logits)
losses.append(-safe_log(probs[tokens[pos + 1]]))
loss = (1.0 / seq_len) * sum(losses)
loss.backward()
# Freeze base model: zero all base parameter gradients after backward.
# backward() propagates gradients through the entire graph, including frozen
# weights. We discard those gradients here, ensuring only LoRA parameters update.
# This is the core LoRA mechanism: the pretrained knowledge is preserved in W_frozen
# while the adaptation signal flows exclusively through A and B.
for p in base_param_list:
p.grad = 0.0
# Update only LoRA parameters
lr_t = LORA_LR * (1 - step / LORA_STEPS)
for i, p in enumerate(lora_param_list):
m_lora[i] = BETA1 * m_lora[i] + (1 - BETA1) * p.grad
v_lora[i] = BETA2 * v_lora[i] + (1 - BETA2) * p.grad ** 2
m_hat = m_lora[i] / (1 - BETA1 ** (step + 1))
v_hat = v_lora[i] / (1 - BETA2 ** (step + 1))
p.data -= lr_t * m_hat / (v_hat ** 0.5 + EPS_ADAM)
p.grad = 0.0
if (step + 1) % 100 == 0 or step == 0:
print(f" step {step + 1:>4}/{LORA_STEPS} | loss: {loss.data:.4f}")
print(f"LoRA training complete. Final loss: {loss.data:.4f}")
# === Results ===
print("\n=== Results ===")
pct = 100 * len(lora_param_list) / len(base_param_list)
print(f"Trainable params \u2014 Full fine-tune: {len(base_param_list):,} | "
f"LoRA: {len(lora_param_list):,} ({pct:.1f}%)")
# Generate from the base model (no LoRA adapters)
print("\nGenerating from BASE model (trained on A-M names):")
base_names = generate_names(params, unique_chars, BOS, VOCAB_SIZE, num_samples=5)
for i, name in enumerate(base_names):
print(f" {i + 1}. {name}")
# Generate from the LoRA-adapted model
print("\nGenerating from LoRA-ADAPTED model (adapted to N-Z names):")
lora_names = generate_names(
params, unique_chars, BOS, VOCAB_SIZE, lora=lora_adapters, num_samples=5
)
for i, name in enumerate(lora_names):
print(f" {i + 1}. {name}")
# Cross-evaluate: measure loss on both splits with both models.
# If LoRA works correctly:
# - Base model should do well on A-M (its training data), poorly on N-Z
# - LoRA-adapted model should improve on N-Z while not degrading much on A-M
# (because W_frozen preserves A-M knowledge and A@B only adds a small perturbation)
loss_base_am = evaluate_loss(base_docs, unique_chars, BOS, VOCAB_SIZE, params)
loss_base_nz = evaluate_loss(lora_docs, unique_chars, BOS, VOCAB_SIZE, params)
loss_lora_am = evaluate_loss(
base_docs, unique_chars, BOS, VOCAB_SIZE, params, lora_adapters
)
loss_lora_nz = evaluate_loss(
lora_docs, unique_chars, BOS, VOCAB_SIZE, params, lora_adapters
)
print(f"\nLoss on A-M split \u2014 Base: {loss_base_am:.2f} | LoRA-adapted: {loss_lora_am:.2f}")
print(f"Loss on N-Z split \u2014 Base: {loss_base_nz:.2f} | LoRA-adapted: {loss_lora_nz:.2f}")