PLoP: Precise LoRA Placement for Efficient Finetuning of Large Models (ICLR 2026)

This project provides a simple script to compute alignment metrics for transformer models on various datasets. This the official code for "PLoP: Precise LoRA Placement for Efficient Finetuning of Large Models" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20629).

Usage

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the main script:

python main.py --model <huggingface-model-handle> --dataset <math|code|history|logic> --batchsize <BATCHSIZE> --nbsamples <N> --seqlen <SEQ_LEN> --aggregation <type|layer|None> --output_dir <RESULTS_DIR>

Example:

python main.py --model meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct --dataset math --batchsize 8 --nbsamples 100 --seqlen 256 --aggregation type --output_dir results/

Arguments

• --model: HuggingFace model handle (e.g., google/gemma-2b)
• --dataset: Dataset name (math, code, history, logic)
• --batchsize: Batch size (not used in this simple version, all samples are processed at once)
• --nbsamples: Number of samples to use from the dataset
• --seqlen: Sequence length for tokenization
• --aggregation: How to aggregate results (type, layer, or None)
• --output_dir: Directory to save results

Output

• Raw and aggregated metrics are saved as JSON files in the specified output directory.