DiM$^3$: Bridging Multilingual and Multimodal Models via Direction- and Magnitude-Aware Merging

Zijing Wang, Mingyang Wang, Ercong Nie, Yongkang Liu and 5 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

SMoA: Spectrum Modulation Adapter for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

SMoA modulates spectra via block-diagonal Hadamard low-rank branches to expand representational coverage under small parameter budgets, outperforming LoRA on multiple tasks.

Yongkang Liu, Xing Li, Mengjie Zhao, Shanru Zhang and 6 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

ChunkFT: Byte-Streamed Optimization for Memory-Efficient Full Fine-Tuning

ChunkFT enables memory-efficient full-parameter fine-tuning via dynamically activated sub-tensors, cutting 7B model memory to 13.72GB and outperforming baselines.

Yongkang Liu, Zijing Wang, Mengjie Zhao, Ercong Nie and 6 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Edit the Bits, Diff the Codes: Bitwise Residual Editing for Visual Autoregressive Models

BitResEdit guides bitwise-residual VAR generators via bit-level source-negative guidance and masked multi-scale residual code injection for localized edits with preserved backgrounds.

Shengqiang Zhang, Ruotong Liao, Volker Tresp, Barbara Plank and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026