peft-main/examples/semantic_segmentation/README.md

# Fine-tuning for semantic segmentation using LoRA and 🤗 PEFT

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We provide a notebook (`semantic_segmentation_peft_lora.ipynb`) where we learn how to use [LoRA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685) from 🤗 PEFT to fine-tune an semantic segmentation by ONLY using **14%%** of the original trainable parameters of the model. 

LoRA adds low-rank "update matrices" to certain blocks in the underlying model (in this case the attention blocks) and ONLY trains those matrices during fine-tuning. During inference, these update matrices are _merged_ with the original model parameters. For more details, check out the [original LoRA paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685).