Rank and File: Why LoRA Adapters May Be Bigger Than They Need to Be
Opening — Why this matters now Fine-tuning large models used to sound like a research luxury. Now it is a line item in the infrastructure budget. Enterprises do not want one general-purpose model behaving vaguely usefully for everyone. They want domain-specific behavior: a support adapter for insurance claims, a compliance adapter for legal review, a financial-document adapter for analyst workflows, perhaps a dozen regional variants, and then another dozen because someone discovered “brand tone” during a steering committee meeting. Naturally. ...