A Categorical Atlas of PEFT

The film · 16 min 44 s · narrated, with captions

A Categorical Atlas of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Why do two different fine-tuning methods trace exactly the same path? The film follows that coincidence through the atlas: what a method can reach, how it learns, and how it travels.

  1. 0:00Two runs, one path
  2. 1:10The nut and the sea
  3. 2:30I · Fine-tuning moves a point
  4. 4:24II · The image: what a method can say
  5. 8:40III · Fibres: how a method learns
  6. 11:36IV · The lens: GaLore
  7. 12:37V · Base change: how a method travels
  8. 14:35The atlas: seven coordinates, 382 methods
  9. 16:06Three questions

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Xiaoyu Li, Zhizhou Sha, Chiwun Yang and Dai Shi, with Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic). Narrated with Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and animated with Manim; every number on screen is computed by the scripts in the repository. The film is under CC BY 4.0.