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Trust the Direction, Search the Step: Zero-and-First-Order Methods for LLM Fine-Tuning

ZFO decouples direction selection from step-size via zeroth-order curvature estimates along first-order directions, improving LLM fine-tuning with minimal overhead.

Cristian McGee, El Houcine Bergou, Aritra Dutta

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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