Visual Editing with LLM-based Tool Chaining: An Efficient Distillation Approach for Real-Time Applications (2024.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | Using natural language as an interaction medium for video editing can mitigate the complexity of video editing. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to fine-tune LLMs for invoking tools in real-time applications by interpreting user stylistic requests in natural language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model matches the performance of the teacher model significantly, reducing costs and latency. |
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