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Poster · Atlanta

Dominant-Layer ZO: A Single Layer Dominates Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs

When
Wed 9 Dec 2026, 10:00–13:00 EST
Where
Hall C1, Georgia World Congress Center
Session
Atlanta Poster Session 1
Authors
Wanhao Yu, Ziyan Wang, Zheng Wang, Abeer M Almalky, Yihang ZUO, Shuteng Niu, Sen Lin, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Deliang Fan, Li Yang
Organisations
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of Houston, State University of New York at Binghamton, Arizona State University, Texas Christian University
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