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Chebyshev Manifold Adaptation (ChebyMA) introduces a novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique using Chebyshev polynomial bases, offering superior accuracy-per-parameter ratios compared to standard methods like LoRA on vision and language tasks. Theoretically grounded in function approximation theory, this approach replaces linear projections with continuous function approximations while maintaining convergence guarantees for reconstruction error. This method advances the frontier of efficient model adaptation by leveraging high-dimensional feature decoupling without requiring full parameter updates.
Chebyshev Manifold Adaptation
arXiv:2607.17377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paper presents a new parameter-efficient adaptation method called ChebyMA (Chebyshev Manifold Adaptation). ChebyMA adopts weight matrices through a multi-surface superposition of Chebyshev polynomial bases evaluated on learnable coordinates and combined via trainable coefficient matrices, replacing standard linear projections with highly expressive continuous function approximation. Theoretically, we establish an Approximation Expressivity Theorem, proving from the perspective of function approximation theory that single-manifold ChebyMA guarantees convergence in Frobenius norm error of reconstruction. Besides, drawing on Kolmogorov $n$-width intuition, we demonstrate the expressive advantages of multi-manifold superposition ($S > 1$) in decoupling high-dimensional complex features. Experimental results on Computer Vision CIFAR datasets(CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100)\cite{CIFAR} and Natural Language Processing (AG News, SST-2) datasets demonstrate that ChebyMA consistently achieves a superior parameter-accuracy Pareto front compared to standard full-parameter fine-tuning, LoRA\cite{LoRA}, TLoRA\cite{TLoRA}, and StelLA\cite{StelLA}. ChebyMA significantly outperforms other tested methods in tested datasets, validating its solid theoretical foundation for generality with purely vectorized computations.
Abstract:The paper presents a new parameter-efficient adaptation method called ChebyMA (Chebyshev Manifold Adaptation). ChebyMA adopts weight matrices through a multi-surface superposition of Chebyshev polynomial bases evaluated on learnable coordinates and combined via trainable coefficient matrices, replacing standard linear projections with highly expressive continuous function approximation. Theoretically, we establish an Approximation Expressivity Theorem, proving from the perspective of function approximation theory that single-manifold ChebyMA guarantees convergence in Frobenius norm error of reconstruction. Besides, drawing on Kolmogorov $n$-width intuition, we demonstrate the expressive advantages of multi-manifold superposition ($S > 1$) in decoupling high-dimensional complex features. Experimental results on Computer Vision CIFAR datasets(CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100)\cite{CIFAR} and Natural Language Processing (AG News, SST-2) datasets demonstrate that ChebyMA consistently achieves a superior parameter-accuracy Pareto front compared to standard full-parameter fine-tuning, LoRA\cite{LoRA}, TLoRA\cite{TLoRA}, and StelLA\cite{StelLA}. ChebyMA significantly outperforms other tested methods in tested datasets, validating its solid theoretical foundation for generality with purely vectorized computations.
Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2607.17377 [cs.LG]
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