Branch, or Layer? Zeroth-Order Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models

@inproceedings{liu2026branch,
  title = {Branch, or Layer? Zeroth-Order Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models},
  author = {Ziwei Liu and Borui Kang and Li Wei and Hangjie Yuan and Yanbing Yang and Wenbin Li and Yifan Zhu and Tao Feng and Jun Luo},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  eprint = {2506.12409},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12409},
}