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PublishedOctober 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Trust the Direction, Search the Step: Zero-and-First-Order Methods for LLM Fine-Tuning
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arXiv:2610.02190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Step-size selection remains a central challenge in large-scale neural network optimization; conservative steps slow convergence, while aggressive steps can destabilize it. We combine \textbf{Z}ero-and-\textbf{F}irst-\textbf{O}rder optimization~(ZFO) an
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