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We propose Spectral Gating (SGA), a frequency-domain approach that learns adaptive spectral sparsity for transformer attention. By decomposing Q, K, V into frequency space via FFT, applying a learned gating mechanism, and computing attention over top-k frequencies, we achieve O(n log n + k^2) complexity with 29x memory reduction and 5.

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for downstream tasks remains prohibitively expensive, as full parameter updates require memory proportional to model size. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods such as LoRA address this by learning low-rank additive updates, but they impose a fixed rank structure that may not align with the intrinsic spectral geometry of pretrained weight matrices.