diff --git a/torchtitan/__init__.py b/torchtitan/__init__.py
index 52c3ff3e22..efb781da17 100644
--- a/torchtitan/__init__.py
+++ b/torchtitan/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
 from importlib.metadata import version
 
+# Import to register lora module.
+import torchtitan.components.lora  # noqa: F401
+
 # Import to register quantization modules.
 import torchtitan.components.quantization  # noqa: F401
 
diff --git a/torchtitan/components/lora.py b/torchtitan/components/lora.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..def9a1c6bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/torchtitan/components/lora.py
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+import math
+from typing import Optional, Union
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from torchtitan.config import JobConfig
+from torchtitan.distributed import ParallelDims
+from torchtitan.protocols.model_converter import register_model_converter
+from torchtitan.tools.logging import logger
+
+
+class LoRALinear(nn.Module):
+    """LoRA wrapper for any linear layer.
+
+    Wraps an existing linear layer and adds LoRA adapters.
+    Implements: x -> linear(x) + (alpha / rank) * B @ A @ x
+
+    See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
+
+    Args:
+        linear: The linear layer to wrap (nn.Linear, Float8Linear, etc.)
+        rank: Rank of the low-rank approximation.
+        alpha: Scaling factor.
+        dropout: Dropout probability.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        linear: nn.Module,
+        rank: int,
+        alpha: float,
+        dropout: float = 0.0,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.linear = linear
+        self.rank = rank
+        self.alpha = alpha
+        self.scaling = alpha / rank
+
+        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(p=dropout) if dropout > 0.0 else nn.Identity()
+
+        # Get dtype from the linear layer's weight
+        dtype = linear.weight.dtype if hasattr(linear, 'weight') else None
+
+        # LoRA layers on meta device
+        self.lora_a = nn.Linear(linear.in_features, rank, bias=False, device="meta", dtype=dtype)
+        self.lora_b = nn.Linear(rank, linear.out_features, bias=False, device="meta", dtype=dtype)
+
+    @property
+    def weight(self):
+        """Expose wrapped linear's weight for compatibility."""
+        return self.linear.weight
+
+    @property
+    def bias(self):
+        """Expose wrapped linear's bias for compatibility."""
+        return self.linear.bias
+
+    @property
+    def in_features(self):
+        """Expose wrapped linear's in_features for compatibility."""
+        return self.linear.in_features
+
+    @property
+    def out_features(self):
+        """Expose wrapped linear's out_features for compatibility."""
+        return self.linear.out_features
+
+    def initialize_parameters(self):
+        """Initialize LoRA parameters after materialization."""
+        nn.init.kaiming_uniform_(self.lora_a.weight, a=math.sqrt(5))
+        nn.init.zeros_(self.lora_b.weight)
+
+    def adapter_params(self) -> list[str]:
+        """Return names of LoRA adapter parameters."""
+        return ["lora_a.weight", "lora_b.weight"]
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        # Base linear forward (works with nn.Linear, Float8Linear, etc.)
+        out = self.linear(x)
+
+        # LoRA path - use modules directly to preserve gradient flow through DTensor
+        lora_x = self.dropout(x)
+        lora_hidden = self.lora_a(lora_x)  # [batch, seq, rank]
+        lora_out = self.lora_b(lora_hidden)  # [batch, seq, out_features]
+
+        # Both out and lora_out are plain tensors (use_local_output=True in TP layer_plan)
+        return out + self.scaling * lora_out
+
+
+class LoRAConverter:
+    """Model converter that adds LoRA adapters to Linear layers."""
+
+    def __init__(self, job_config: JobConfig, parallel_dims: ParallelDims):
+        self.rank = job_config.lora.rank
+        self.alpha = job_config.lora.alpha
+        self.dropout = job_config.lora.dropout
+        self._lora_modules: list[LoRALinear] = []
+
+        logger.info(
+            f"LoRA training active with rank={self.rank}, alpha={self.alpha}, "
+            f"dropout={self.dropout}"
+        )
+
+    def convert(self, model: nn.Module) -> None:
+        """Inplace conversion of the model to use LoRA adapters."""
+        self._apply_lora(model)
+        self._hook_init_weights(model)
+
+        logger.info(f"Converted {len(self._lora_modules)} linear modules to LoRALinear")
+
+    def _apply_lora(self, model: nn.Module) -> None:
+        """Replace Linear layers with LoRALinear wrappers."""
+        for module in list(model.modules()):
+            for name, child in list(module._modules.items()):
+                if isinstance(child, nn.Linear) and not isinstance(child, LoRALinear):
+                    if name == "output":
+                        continue
+                    lora_linear = LoRALinear(
+                        linear=child,
+                        rank=self.rank,
+                        alpha=self.alpha,
+                        dropout=self.dropout,
+                    )
+                    setattr(module, name, lora_linear)
+                    self._lora_modules.append(lora_linear)
+
+    def _hook_init_weights(self, model: nn.Module) -> None:
+        """Hook into init_weights to freeze base params and initialize LoRA."""
+        original_init_weights = model.init_weights
+        lora_modules = self._lora_modules
+        model_ref = [model]
+
+        def new_init_weights(*args, **kwargs):
+            if callable(original_init_weights):
+                original_init_weights(*args, **kwargs)
+
+            for ll in lora_modules:
+                ll.initialize_parameters()
+
+            m = model_ref[0]
+
+            trainable_count = 0
+            frozen_count = 0
+            for name, param in m.named_parameters():
+                if "lora_a" in name or "lora_b" in name:
+                    param.requires_grad_(True)
+                    trainable_count += 1
+                else:
+                    param.requires_grad_(False)
+                    frozen_count += 1
+
+            total_params = sum(p.numel() for p in m.parameters())
+            trainable_params = sum(p.numel() for p in m.parameters() if p.requires_grad)
+            logger.info(
+                f"LoRA: frozen {frozen_count} params, trainable {trainable_count} params, "
+                f"trainable params: {trainable_params:,} / {total_params:,} "
+                f"({100 * trainable_params / total_params:.2f}%)"
+            )
+
+        object.__setattr__(model, "init_weights", new_init_weights)
+
+    def post_optimizer_hook(self, model: Union[nn.Module, list[nn.Module]]) -> None:
+        """Post-optimizer hook (no-op for LoRA)."""
+        pass
+
+
+# Register the LoRA converter
+register_model_converter(LoRAConverter, "lora")
diff --git a/torchtitan/config/job_config.py b/torchtitan/config/job_config.py
index 108c38efba..ec89ae39a4 100644
--- a/torchtitan/config/job_config.py
+++ b/torchtitan/config/job_config.py
@@ -694,6 +694,21 @@ class ActivationCheckpoint:
     """
 
 
+@dataclass
+class LoRA:
+    rank: int = 8
+    """Rank of the low-rank approximation. Higher rank = more parameters but better quality."""
+
+    alpha: float = 16.0
+    """
+    Scaling factor for the low-rank approximation.
+    The LoRA output is scaled by (alpha / rank), so higher alpha means stronger LoRA effect.
+    """
+
+    dropout: float = 0.0
+    """Dropout probability applied to the LoRA layers. 0.0 means no dropout."""
+
+
 @dataclass
 class Compile:
     enable: bool = False
@@ -991,6 +1006,7 @@ class JobConfig:
     activation_checkpoint: ActivationCheckpoint = field(
         default_factory=ActivationCheckpoint
     )
+    lora: LoRA = field(default_factory=LoRA)
     compile: Compile = field(default_factory=Compile)
     quantize: Quantize = field(default_factory=Quantize)
     comm: Comm = field(default_factory=Comm)
diff --git a/torchtitan/models/llama3/infra/parallelize.py b/torchtitan/models/llama3/infra/parallelize.py
index b6c339fa67..980c626481 100644
--- a/torchtitan/models/llama3/infra/parallelize.py
+++ b/torchtitan/models/llama3/infra/parallelize.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     SequenceParallel,
 )
 
+from torchtitan.components.lora import LoRALinear
 from torchtitan.config import JobConfig, TORCH_DTYPE_MAP
 from torchtitan.config.job_config import Compile as CompileConfig
 from torchtitan.distributed import ParallelDims
@@ -30,6 +31,28 @@
 from torchtitan.tools.logging import logger
 
 
+def _get_tp_path(module: nn.Module, path: str) -> str:
+    """Get TP path, redirecting to .linear for LoRALinear wrappers."""
+    parts = path.split(".")
+    target = module
+    for part in parts:
+        target = getattr(target, part, None)
+        if target is None:
+            return path
+    return f"{path}.linear" if isinstance(target, LoRALinear) else path
+
+
+def _is_lora_linear(module: nn.Module, path: str) -> bool:
+    """Check if module at path is LoRALinear."""
+    parts = path.split(".")
+    target = module
+    for part in parts:
+        target = getattr(target, part, None)
+        if target is None:
+            return False
+    return isinstance(target, LoRALinear)
+
+
 # for selective op activation checkpointing
 _op_sac_save_list = {
     torch.ops.aten.mm.default,
@@ -160,21 +183,27 @@ def apply_tp(
     # transformer block's inputs)
     # 2. Parallelize the root norm layer over the sequence dim
     # 3. Parallelize the final linear output layer
+
+    # Handle output layer - redirect to .linear if wrapped with LoRALinear
+    output_path = _get_tp_path(model, "output")
+
+    # Build plan for top-level modules
+    top_level_plan = {
+        "tok_embeddings": RowwiseParallel(
+            input_layouts=Replicate(),
+            output_layouts=Shard(1),
+        ),
+        "norm": SequenceParallel(),
+        output_path: ColwiseParallel(
+            input_layouts=Shard(1),
+            output_layouts=Shard(-1) if loss_parallel else Replicate(),
+            use_local_output=not loss_parallel,
+        ),
+    }
     parallelize_module(
         model,
         tp_mesh,
-        {
-            "tok_embeddings": RowwiseParallel(
-                input_layouts=Replicate(),
-                output_layouts=Shard(1),
-            ),
-            "norm": SequenceParallel(),
-            "output": ColwiseParallel(
-                input_layouts=Shard(1),
-                output_layouts=Shard(-1) if loss_parallel else Replicate(),
-                use_local_output=not loss_parallel,
-            ),
-        },
+        top_level_plan,
     )
 
     # Parallel styles used for transformer block linear weights and their
@@ -203,8 +232,40 @@ def apply_tp(
     # NOTE: At the cost of model code change, we can accelerate Sequence Parallel
     #       by folding (and unfolding) the batch dimension and the sequence dimension.
     #       Examples can be found at https://github.com/pytorch/torchtitan/pull/437
+
+    # LoRA parallel styles for colwise and rowwise layers
+    # For colwise: lora_a uses Replicate, lora_b uses colwise_parallel
+    lora_a_colwise = RowwiseParallel(
+        input_layouts=Replicate(),
+        output_layouts=Replicate(),
+        use_local_output=True,
+    )
+    # For rowwise: lora_a takes sharded input, produces Replicate output (DTensor, no use_local_output)
+    # Then lora_b takes Replicate input and produces Shard(1) output
+    lora_a_rowwise = RowwiseParallel(
+        input_layouts=Shard(-1),
+        output_layouts=Replicate(),
+        use_local_output=False,  # Keep as DTensor for lora_b to consume
+    )
+    # lora_b for rowwise: ColwiseParallel with Shard(1) output to match base linear
+    lora_b_rowwise = ColwiseParallel(
+        input_layouts=Replicate(),
+        output_layouts=Shard(1),
+        use_local_output=True,
+    )
+
     # pyrefly: ignore [not-callable]
     for transformer_block in model.layers.values():
+        # Build TP paths, redirecting to .linear submodule for LoRALinear wrappers
+        # This avoids TP trying to distribute LoRA adapter parameters
+        wq_path = _get_tp_path(transformer_block, "attention.wq")
+        wk_path = _get_tp_path(transformer_block, "attention.wk")
+        wv_path = _get_tp_path(transformer_block, "attention.wv")
+        wo_path = _get_tp_path(transformer_block, "attention.wo")
+        w1_path = _get_tp_path(transformer_block, "feed_forward.w1")
+        w2_path = _get_tp_path(transformer_block, "feed_forward.w2")
+        w3_path = _get_tp_path(transformer_block, "feed_forward.w3")
+
         layer_plan = {
             "attention_norm": SequenceParallel(),
             # NOTE: when the fourth argument (positions) is not None, its input layout
@@ -213,20 +274,46 @@ def apply_tp(
                 input_layouts=(Shard(1), None, None, None),
                 desired_input_layouts=(Replicate(), None, None, None),
             ),
-            "attention.wq": colwise_parallel(),
-            "attention.wk": colwise_parallel(),
-            "attention.wv": colwise_parallel(),
-            "attention.wo": rowwise_parallel(output_layouts=Shard(1)),
+            wq_path: colwise_parallel(),
+            wk_path: colwise_parallel(),
+            wv_path: colwise_parallel(),
+            wo_path: rowwise_parallel(output_layouts=Shard(1)),
             "ffn_norm": SequenceParallel(),
             "feed_forward": prepare_module_input(
                 input_layouts=(Shard(1),),
                 desired_input_layouts=(Replicate(),),
             ),
-            "feed_forward.w1": colwise_parallel(),
-            "feed_forward.w2": rowwise_parallel(output_layouts=Shard(1)),
-            "feed_forward.w3": colwise_parallel(),
+            w1_path: colwise_parallel(),
+            w2_path: rowwise_parallel(output_layouts=Shard(1)),
+            w3_path: colwise_parallel(),
         }
 
+        # Add LoRA parallelism to layer_plan if module is LoRALinear
+        # Colwise layers (wq, wk, wv, w1, w3): lora_b(lora_a(x)) behaves like colwise_parallel()
+        if _is_lora_linear(transformer_block, "attention.wq"):
+            layer_plan["attention.wq.lora_a"] = lora_a_colwise
+            layer_plan["attention.wq.lora_b"] = colwise_parallel()
+        if _is_lora_linear(transformer_block, "attention.wk"):
+            layer_plan["attention.wk.lora_a"] = lora_a_colwise
+            layer_plan["attention.wk.lora_b"] = colwise_parallel()
+        if _is_lora_linear(transformer_block, "attention.wv"):
+            layer_plan["attention.wv.lora_a"] = lora_a_colwise
+            layer_plan["attention.wv.lora_b"] = colwise_parallel()
+        if _is_lora_linear(transformer_block, "feed_forward.w1"):
+            layer_plan["feed_forward.w1.lora_a"] = lora_a_colwise
+            layer_plan["feed_forward.w1.lora_b"] = colwise_parallel()
+        if _is_lora_linear(transformer_block, "feed_forward.w3"):
+            layer_plan["feed_forward.w3.lora_a"] = lora_a_colwise
+            layer_plan["feed_forward.w3.lora_b"] = colwise_parallel()
+
+        # Rowwise layers (wo, w2): lora_b(lora_a(x)) behaves like rowwise_parallel(output_layouts=Shard(1))
+        if _is_lora_linear(transformer_block, "attention.wo"):
+            layer_plan["attention.wo.lora_a"] = lora_a_rowwise
+            layer_plan["attention.wo.lora_b"] = lora_b_rowwise
+        if _is_lora_linear(transformer_block, "feed_forward.w2"):
+            layer_plan["feed_forward.w2.lora_a"] = lora_a_rowwise
+            layer_plan["feed_forward.w2.lora_b"] = lora_b_rowwise
+
         parallelize_module(
             # pyrefly: ignore [bad-argument-type]
             module=transformer_block,