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[Model][LoRA] Enable LoRA support for BERT and RoBERTa embedding models - #61033
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Add SupportsLoRA to BertEmbeddingModel, which RobertaEmbeddingModel inherits. Declare the fused qkv_proj packed mapping and a name mapper that places PEFT adapter weights (optionally under `bert.`/`roberta.`) under the `model.` backbone prefix, so adapters are not silently ignored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017vy3qjpG3jvqpRrUuRFDVF Signed-off-by: hoaivoke <vokehoai@gmail.com>
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Overview
Enable LoRA adapters for
BertModel,RobertaModelandXLMRobertaModelembedding models. All three load throughBertEmbeddingModel, whichRobertaEmbeddingModelsubclasses. Covered models includeBAAI/bge-*,sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-*andintfloat/multilingual-e5-*. Follows #57148 (ModernBERT) and #58884 (RobertaForSequenceClassification).Related: #40581 adds LoRA to
BertWithRopemodels andXLMRobertaModel, but notBertModel. See Details for the overlap.Claims
--enable-loraworks for these models instead of failing withBertEmbeddingModel does not support LoRA yet.bert./roberta.(e.g. trained on*ForMaskedLM).Validation
Tesla T4, main @ 2d69083.
init_lora_weights=False, targets encoderquery|key|value|dense).bert.roberta.roberta.The last column shows the adapter is actually applied, not silently ignored.
Before this change, the BERT and RoBERTa models fail at startup with
ValueError: BertEmbeddingModel does not support LoRA yet.pytest tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py tests/models/language/pooling/test_truncation_control.py -k 'not mistral and not gemma2 and not Qwen2': 11 passed both before and after.LoRA only runs in fp16 here because the LoRA shrink kernel requires fp16/bf16 and the T4 has no bf16.
Validation script
Details
packed_modules_mappingmaps HF's separatequery/key/valueLoRA weights onto the fusedqkv_proj. The innerBertModelalready declares it; the LoRA manager reads it from the top-level model.hf_to_vllm_mapperplaces adapter weights under vLLM'smodel.backbone prefix.BertEmbeddingModelpreviously did this renaming only insideload_weights, which the LoRA loader does not use.LoRAModel.from_local_checkpointvalidates only the last name component, so without the mapper an adapter loads but is never applied.self.configis required by the LoRA manager, as in [Model] Enable LoRA support for RobertaForSequenceClassification #58884.model_loader/utils.py), mapping them onto the realmodel.-prefixed module names.BgeM3EmbeddingModel, which also inherits the change. Its docs row is left unchanged.JinaRobertaModelpath used byjinaai/jina-embeddings-v3, which merges its own LoRA weights at load time.SupportsLoRA/packing toRobertaEmbeddingModel. If that PR lands, its class attributes override the inherited ones; the files don't conflict. cc @yuancutests/loratest if reviewers want one.Pull Request Checklist
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