From Isolation to Alignment: Unified LoRA for Efficient Multi-Task Learning
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) is essential for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to multi-task scenarios. A prevailing trend in this field involves complex LoRA variants with multiple adapters or heads, which rely on the premise that architectural isolation of task-specific knowledge is necessary. However, this design often introduces dynamic routing, preventing weight merging and causing significant inference latency. In this work, we present a direct challenge to this paradigm. We first reveal a paradox where a simplified, router-free multi-head model with high inter-head redundancy outperforms complex, diversity-driven baselines. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a unified, single-adapter LoRA with increased rank achieves highly competitive performance, questioning the necessity of multi-component structures. Based on these findings, we propose Align-LoRA, a unified and efficient framework that shifts the focus from architectural isolation to representation alignment. Align-LoRA incorporates an explicit alignment loss to encourage the learning of task-shared representations within a shared latent space. Crucially, our method maintains the standard LoRA architecture, ensuring zero inference latency via weight merging. Theoretical analysis and extensive experiments confirm that Align-LoRA significantly surpasses prevailing approaches, establishing a simpler, more effective, and production-friendly paradigm for multi-task PEFT. The code is available at https://github.com/jinda-liu/Align-LoRA.
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