arXiv AI By Linhan Xia, Rui Liu, Zhaofeng Zhang, Yihao Wang, Binrui Shen, Shengxin Zhu

LoCA: Forward-Only LLM Tuning after One-Shot Calibration with Local Credit Assignment

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arXiv:2608. 03020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient post-training reduces the number of trainable parameters, but still requires repeated end-to-end backpropagation through the frozen backbone.

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