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Lora

Using Low-rank adaptation to quickly fine-tune diffusion models.

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About Lora

Lora is a community-maintained Jupyter Notebook implementation that uses low-rank adaptation to fine-tune diffusion models efficiently. It reduces the number of trainable parameters by decomposing weight updates into low-rank matrices, enabling faster training with lower memory usage.

Best for

Developers and researchers who need to quickly adapt diffusion models with limited compute resources.

Use cases

  • Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion on custom image datasets
  • Adapting diffusion models for specific artistic styles or subjects
  • Experimenting with parameter-efficient transfer learning for generative models

Notes

7,538 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2024-03-22. Licensed Apache-2.0.

Pros

  • Reduces GPU memory and training time compared to full fine-tuning
  • Open source with a large community and 7.5k+ GitHub stars
  • Works with popular diffusion model frameworks

Cons

  • Limited to diffusion models and not applicable to other architectures
  • Requires familiarity with Jupyter Notebooks and Python for setup
  • Performance may degrade if rank is set too low for complex tasks

Key facts

What we have checked

Latest version
0.1.7 (released 13 Feb 2023)
Checked GitHub
GitHub stars
7,557
Checked github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438

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Stars and usage

How Lora is growing

GitHub stars

7,538 to 7,557

stars. 12 July 2026 to 26 Sept 2026, 2 readings.

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Changelog

What changed

  1. Released 0.1.7

    Source: GitHub

  2. Released 0.1.6

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  3. Released 0.1.5

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  4. Released 0.1.4

    Source: GitHub

  5. Released 0.1.3

    Source: GitHub

  6. Released 0.1.2

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  7. Released 0.1.1

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  8. Released 0.1.0-alpha

    Source: GitHub

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