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PublishedJuly 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Memory Savings at What Cost? A Study of Alternatives to Backpropagation
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arXiv:2506.21833v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forward-mode automatic differentiation (FmAD) and zero-order (ZO) optimization are increasingly proposed as memory-efficient, backpropagation-free alternatives for large language model (LLM) fine-tuning, yet their benefits are typically evaluated o
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