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Zhen-Kun Wang

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Multi-Task Evolution for Zero-Shot Cross-Problem Generalization using LLMs

Designing effective heuristics for diverse combinatorial optimization problems requires substantial expertise and repeated search. Large language models (LLMs) automate heuristic generation and refinement, but heuristic search typically depends on evaluation feedback from the problem being optimized. Generalizing to ne...

Zhou-Liang Xie, Chang-Liang Zhou, Geng-Hui Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

AIM-ZO: Activation-Informed Subspace Maintenance for Zeroth-Order LLM Fine-Tuning

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization offers a memory-efficient alternative for LLM fine-tuning by estimating updates only from forward evaluations of perturbed parameters, without backpropagation or activation storage. However, in billion-parameter LLMs, isotropic perturbations often waste many forward evaluations on weakly...

Yue Xie, Zhi Zheng, Yun-Peng Ba et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Hyper-ES: Effective Evolution Strategies for LLM Reasoning via Descent Direction Merging

This work proposes Hyper-ES, a subspace-based ES framework that avoids the weakness of ES in full-parameter search while exploiting its strength in low-dimensional optimization, and consistently outperforms GRPO-LoRA while requiring 10% fewer space-consuming gradient updates.

Yuntian Gu, Zhi Zheng, Yun-Peng Ba et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Understanding Evolution Strategies for LLM Reasoning: Broader Reasoning Coverage than GRPO

These findings position ES as a distinct reasoning post-training paradigm rather than a less effective, memory-efficient alternative to GRPO, and study how hyperparameter design affects the effectiveness of ES, demonstrating that ES requires a smaller population size in a larger LLM.

Yunpeng Ba, Zhi Zheng, Yue Xie et al. · 0 citations

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