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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Roots Beneath the Cut: Uncovering the Risk of Concept Revival in Pruning-Based Unlearning for Diffusion Models

Ci Zhang, Zhaojun Ding, Chence Yang +7

Pruning-based unlearning has recently emerged as a fast, training-free, and data-independent approach to remove undesired concepts from diffusion models. It promises high efficienc…

cs.LG2025

Towards Fast LLM Fine-tuning through Zeroth-Order Optimization with Projected Gradient-Aligned Perturbations

Zhendong Mi, Qitao Tan, Grace Li Zhang +3

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) using zeroth-order (ZO) optimization has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional gradient-based methods due to its reduced memory…

cs.LG2025

End-to-End On-Device Quantization-Aware Training for LLMs at Inference Cost

Qitao Tan, Xiaoying Song, Jin Lu +9

Quantization is an effective technique to reduce the deployment cost of large language models (LLMs), and post-training quantization (PTQ) has been widely studied due to its effici…

cs.LG2025

ACE: Exploring Activation Cosine Similarity and Variance for Accurate and Calibration-Efficient LLM Pruning

Zhendong Mi, Zhenglun Kong, Geng Yuan +1

With the rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs), the demand for memory and computational resources has grown significantly. Recent advances in LLM pruning aim to reduce th…

cs.LG2025

KerZOO: Kernel Function Informed Zeroth-Order Optimization for Accurate and Accelerated LLM Fine-Tuning

Zhendong Mi, Qitao Tan, Xiaodong Yu +3

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across numerous NLP tasks. Nevertheless, conventional first-order fine-tuning techniques impose heavy memory…