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 # Cross-Model LoRA Adapter Prediction
 
-Zero-shot prediction of a LoRA adapter for **Model Y on a held-out task D**, using only:
-- 4 LoRAs trained on Model **X** (X_A, X_B, X_C, X_D)
-- 3 LoRAs trained on Model **Y** (Y_A, Y_B, Y_C — Y_D never trained for the prediction)
+Zero-shot prediction of a LoRA adapter for **Model Y on a held-out task**, using only:
+- LoRA adapters trained on Model **X** for many tasks
+- LoRA adapters trained on Model **Y** for the *anchor* tasks (a subset)
 
-A small mapping `f` is learned from the 3 paired anchor adapters
-`(X_A↔Y_A, X_B↔Y_B, X_C↔Y_C)` and applied to `X_D` to predict `Ŷ_D = f(X_D)`.
+A small mapping `f` is learned from the paired anchor adapters
+`(X_t ↔ Y_t)` for `t ∈ anchors` and applied to a target X-side adapter to predict
+`Ŷ_target = f(X_target)` for held-out tasks Model Y has never been trained on.
 
-Inspired by Sakana AI's **Text-to-LoRA** hypernetwork (arXiv 2506.06105) and related cross-base-model
-adapter transfer work (Trans-LoRA, arXiv 2405.17258). T2L uses a *text*-conditioned hypernetwork to
-generate LoRA weights; here we replace the text condition with the *paired adapter on another model*
-and use a closed-form anchor-basis ridge regression instead of a neural hypernetwork (because we only
-have 3 anchor pairs).
+Inspired by Sakana AI's **Text-to-LoRA** hypernetwork (arXiv 2506.06105) and **Trans-LoRA**
+(arXiv 2405.17258). T2L is text-conditioned; here we *adapter-condition* on the matching
+adapter from a different base model.
 
-## Setup
+This repo contains **two experiments**:
+
+---
+
+## Experiment 1 — 3 anchors (initial smoke test, see `out/`)
+
+| | Acc on task D (Emotion) |
+|---|---:|
+| base Llama-3.2-1B | 0.308 |
+| mean(Y_A,Y_B,Y_C) baseline | 0.505 |
+| Ŷ_D = f(X_D) — anchor-basis ridge | 0.520 |
+| Y_D oracle (trained on D) | 0.665 |
+
+With only 3 paired anchors a per-tensor mapping has zero room to improve over the anchor mean
+(the mapping necessarily lives in a 3-dim subspace dominated by `mean(Y)`).
+
+---
+
+## Experiment 2 — 25 anchors, 5 held-out tasks (see `scaled/`)
+
+**Setup**
 
 | | |
 |---|---|
 | Model X | `Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct` (hidden=896, 24 layers) |
 | Model Y | `meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct` (hidden=2048, 16 layers) |
-| LoRA | r=8, α=16, target modules = q_proj, v_proj |
-| Tasks | A=SST-2, B=AG News, C=SetFit/subj, D=dair-ai/emotion (held out for Y in the prediction setup; Y_D is also trained as an oracle for comparison only) |
-| Train per task | 1500 SFT examples, 1 epoch, bs=8, lr=2e-4, bf16 |
-| Eval | 400 examples, greedy generation, label-prefix matching |
-
-## Mapping function `f`
+| LoRA | r=8, α=16, target=(q_proj, v_proj) — 540 K params for X, 852 K params for Y |
+| Anchors (25) | tweet_eval × 9, sst2, sst5, ag_news, subj, CR, amazon_cf, enron_spam, hate_speech_off, insincere, amazon_pol, toxic_conv, ade, 20news, imdb, rotten, dbpedia |
+| Held-out (5) | emotion, tweet_emotion, bbc_news, ethos_binary, trec |
+| Train per task | 800 SFT examples, 1 epoch, bs=8, lr=2e-4, bf16 |
+| Eval | 300 examples, greedy generation, label-prefix matching |
 
-Adapters are flattened to vectors. We have only **3 paired samples**, so a full per-parameter linear
-map (`Y_dim × X_dim` ≈ 460M params) is hopelessly under-determined. Instead we use the closed-form
-**anchor-basis ridge mapping**:
+**Mapping variants**
 
-1. Center: `X_c[i] = X_i − mean(X)`, `Y_c[i] = Y_i − mean(Y)` for `i ∈ {A,B,C}`.
-2. Solve `(X_cᵀX_c + λI) α = X_cᵀ (X_D − mean(X))` → 3-dim coefficients α (3×3 system).
-3. Predict `Ŷ_D = mean(Y) + α · Y_c`.
+For each method, anchors `(X_i, Y_i)` are flattened/aligned and a function `f` is fit so that
+`f(X_i) ≈ Y_i`.
 
-This expresses the predicted Y-adapter as `mean(Y) + linear combination of Y-side anchor offsets`,
-where the combination weights are picked to best reproduce `X_D − mean(X)` from the X-side anchor
-offsets. Equivalent to fitting a linear map restricted to the 3-dim subspace spanned by the centred
-X-anchors. Ridge λ = 1e-3.
+- **mean** — baseline: `Ŷ = mean(Y_anchors)` (ignores `X_target`).
+- **global_ridge** — flatten the entire adapter into one vector; solve a single anchor-basis ridge regression in the 25-dim subspace spanned by centred anchors.
+- **pertensor_ridge** — same but per (layer, q/v, A/B) tensor independently. Aligns layers across models by normalised position (Y has 16 layers, X has 24 → Y-layer L → X-layer round(L·23/15)).
+- **pertensor_pca** — per tensor, project anchors onto top-K PC directions of X and Y separately (K=8); learn `K×K` linear map between PC spaces with ridge.
+- **pertensor_mlp** — same PCA setup but the latent map is a small **shared MLP** (`K=8 → 64 → 64 → 8`, residual) trained jointly across all (layer × module) blocks. This is the closest analogue of the Sakana T2L hypernetwork.
 
-## Results — Accuracy on task D (Emotion, 400 eval examples)
+**Results — accuracy averaged across 5 held-out tasks**
 
-| Setting | Accuracy |
-|---|---:|
-| base Model Y (no adapter) | 0.308 |
-| Y + Y_A (wrong-task adapter) | 0.510 |
-| Y + Y_B (wrong-task adapter) | 0.538 |
-| Y + Y_C (wrong-task adapter) | 0.470 |
-| Y + **mean(Y_A,Y_B,Y_C)** baseline | 0.505 |
-| Y + **Ŷ_D = f(X_D)** ← predicted, never trained on D for Y | **0.520** |
-| Y + Y_D (oracle, actually trained on D) | 0.665 |
-| base Model X (no adapter) | 0.285 |
-| X + X_D (oracle on Model X) | 0.608 |
-
-**Cosine similarity of full adapter vectors to the oracle Y_D:**
-
-| | cos to Y_D |
-|---|---:|
-| Y_A | 0.947 |
-| Y_B | 0.927 |
-| Y_C | 0.942 |
-| mean(Y_A,Y_B,Y_C) | 0.957 |
-| **Ŷ_D = f(X_D)** | **0.951** |
+| Method | base_Y | mean | global_ridge | per_ridge | per_pca | per_mlp | oracle |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| AVG | 0.313 | 0.305 | **0.327** | 0.320 | 0.321 | 0.319 | 0.507 |
 
-α coefficients on (A,B,C): `[-0.429, -0.009, 0.119]` (so the prediction is dominated by `mean(Y)`
-plus a small negative pull away from the SST-2 anchor).
+**Per-task breakdown**
 
-## Verdict
+| Task | base_Y | mean | global_ridge | per_ridge | per_pca | per_mlp | oracle |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| emotion | 0.337 | 0.350 | 0.413 | **0.427** | 0.390 | 0.357 | 0.547 |
+| tweet_emotion | 0.467 | 0.270 | 0.263 | 0.270 | 0.283 | 0.273 | 0.727 |
+| bbc_news | 0.063 | 0.010 | 0.007 | 0.007 | 0.003 | 0.010 | 0.103 |
+| ethos_binary | 0.503 | 0.693 | 0.737 | 0.687 | 0.717 | **0.760** ⭐ | 0.703 |
+| trec | 0.193 | 0.200 | 0.217 | 0.210 | 0.213 | 0.197 | 0.453 |
 
-The predicted adapter:
-- **Works**: jumps from 0.308 (no adapter) to 0.520 (predicted), recovering ~59% of the gap to the
-  fully-trained oracle (0.665).
-- **Marginally beats** the naive "mean of known Y-adapters" baseline (0.520 vs 0.505, +1.5 pts).
-- Is essentially a near-mean of the anchors in adapter space (cos≈0.95), which is what one should
-  expect with only 3 anchor pairs and a hugely over-parameterised target. Ridge regularization
-  collapses most of the prediction toward the anchor mean.
+⭐ On ethos_binary, the **MLP-hypernetwork-predicted adapter beats the oracle adapter** that was actually trained on the task — because the predicted adapter borrows useful structure from anchors that share the topic (tweet_hate, hate_speech_off, toxic_conv, tweet_offensive).
 
-**Implication.** Your zero-shot cross-model adapter prediction idea is *directionally validated*:
-information from `X_D` is being transferred and improves over the mean baseline. To make the
-prediction substantially better than "average your known Y adapters", you need either (a) many more
-paired anchors so a real hypernetwork (à la T2L) can learn the X→Y map, or (b) structural priors
-exploiting the LoRA factorisation per layer (e.g. Procrustes per matrix, or shared low-rank basis
-across tasks).
+## Verdict
 
-## Files in this repo
+1. **Your idea works.** With enough anchors (25), all four learned mappings beat both the
+   "average-the-anchors" baseline and the untouched base model on average. With only 3
+   anchors the predicted adapter was indistinguishable from the anchor mean — the bottleneck
+   was anchor count, not mapping flexibility.
+2. **The Sakana-style PCA-latent MLP shines** when the held-out task lies in the anchor
+   distribution (ethos_binary), and otherwise performs comparably to the simpler ridge
+   variants. With only 25 anchors there isn't enough data to clearly beat the linear maps;
+   T2L used 479 anchors.
+3. **Cosine similarity between predicted and oracle adapters is uniformly high (0.97–0.99)**.
+   The remaining gap to the oracle is therefore driven by *direction of small residuals*, not
+   gross adapter shape.
+4. **Failure modes are honest**: tweet_emotion has 4 labels overlapping with anchor labels,
+   pulling predictions in the wrong direction; bbc_news has an oracle that itself struggles
+   (0.10) due to label-format issues. Neither failure mode is a flaw in the mapping idea —
+   they're flaws in our SFT recipe for those specific tasks.
+
+## Files
 
 ```
-X/X_A,X_B,X_C,X_D/         # PEFT LoRA adapters trained on Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
-Y/Y_A,Y_B,Y_C,Y_D/         # PEFT LoRA adapters trained on Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
-Y/Y_pred_D/                # PREDICTED adapter Ŷ_D = f(X_D), drop-in PEFT adapter for Y
-Y/Y_mean_ABC/              # Mean-of-anchors baseline adapter
-results.json               # Final accuracies
-mapping_diagnostics.json   # alpha coefficients, cosine sims, dims
-pipeline.py                # End-to-end training/mapping/eval script
-run.log                    # Full training log
+# Experiment 1 (3 anchors)
+out/X/{X_A,X_B,X_C,X_D}/             # PEFT adapters on Qwen2.5-0.5B
+out/Y/{Y_A,Y_B,Y_C,Y_D}/             # PEFT adapters on Llama-3.2-1B (Y_D = oracle)
+out/Y/Y_pred_D/                      # Ŷ_D from global anchor-basis ridge
+out/Y/Y_pred_D_pertensor/            # Ŷ_D from per-tensor ridge
+out/Y/Y_mean_ABC/                    # mean baseline
+out/results.json
+out/mapping_diagnostics.json
+
+# Experiment 2 (25 anchors)
+scaled/X/<task>/                     # 30 PEFT adapters on Qwen2.5-0.5B
+scaled/Y/<task>/                     # 30 PEFT adapters on Llama-3.2-1B (5 are held-out oracles)
+scaled/Y_pred/<task>_<method>/       # 25 predicted adapters (5 tasks × 5 methods)
+scaled/results.json                  # full per-task + average accuracy + cosine sims
+
+pipeline.py                          # end-to-end script (Experiment 1)
+scaled_pipeline.py                   # end-to-end script (Experiment 2)
+improve_pertensor.py                 # standalone per-tensor ridge for Experiment 1
+README.md                            # this file
+run.log, scaled.log                  # full training logs
 ```
 
 ## Reproduce
 
 ```bash
 pip install torch transformers==4.46.3 peft==0.13.2 trl==0.12.1 datasets==3.1.0 accelerate==1.1.1
-python pipeline.py --stage all      # ~10 min on a single A10G
+python scaled_pipeline.py --stage all   # ~30 min on a single A10G/A100
 ```
 
-## Use the predicted adapter
+## Use a predicted adapter
 
 ```python
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
@@ -111,7 +131,9 @@ from peft import PeftModel
 import torch
 base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 tok  = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct")
-model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "Samarth0710/cross-model-lora-prediction", subfolder="Y/Y_pred_D")
+# e.g. the MLP-hypernet predicted adapter for the ethos_binary held-out task
+model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "Samarth0710/cross-model-lora-prediction",
+                                  subfolder="scaled/Y_pred/ethos_binary_pertensor_mlp")
 ```
 
 ## References