2 papers
cs.NE2026
Continual Evolution Strategies in Control Tasks
Nicola Pitzalis, Eleni Nisioti, Antonio Carta +2
We study Evolution Strategies (ES) for continual control, where agents must adapt to changing tasks without forgetting previous ones. On sequential MuJoCo locomotion tasks, naive E…
cs.LG2026
Z-PEFT: Zero-shot Backdoor Detection in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Canonical Spectral Signatures
Nicola Pitzalis, Donald Shenaj, Giacomo Cignoni +3
Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuned (PEFT) models are frequently downloaded from open repositories by practitioners. This widespread practice creates a significant attack surface, as ma…