LoRazor: Trimming Adapter Execution for Efficient Multi-LoRA Serving

Xiang Li, Pengcheng Wang, Azam Ikram, Saurabh Bagchi

LoRA offers a parameter-efficient adaptation strategy, supporting multi-user workloads via customized adapters on a shared backbone. However, serving concurrent requests with different adapters introduces substantial computation and memory-management overhead. We ask the research question: Do all requests need their adapters throughout the whole generation process? Our motivational study reveals that employing LoRA adapters at every decoding step is unnecessary, releasing them early has limited impact on accuracy while substantially accelerating generation. Although skipping adapters early offers theoretical workload reduction, translating these computational savings into concrete throughput gains requires tailored GPU kernels. We present LoRazor, a multi-LoRA serving framework that combines early adapter release with active-row aware GPU kernels. LoRazor determines when to permanently release a request's adapter and continue decoding with the backbone alone. By dynamically resizing LoRA kernel launches as adapters are released, LoRazor trims idle GPU blocks. Across two backbones and four tasks, LoRazor achieves up to 3.02x request throughput and 2.53x output-token throughput…