Prompt Tuning Is Forgotten Lore — Are We Massively Underusing Finetuned Tokens?

cephaloform · x · 2026-10-09

The author notes that prompt tuning (2021) has been almost completely forgotten and argues the community may be massively underusing finetuning tokens, along with the VRAM-maxing DreamBooth-style configs of that era.

They speculate that inference frameworks accepting raw inputids could unlock new possibilities, and that evolutionary methods might work exceptionally well for searching over trainable tokens.

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