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Technology & AIAug 12, 2026

Curvature-Aware Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient Test-Time Adaptation

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to enhance the cross-domain performance of pre-trained models by adapting to unlabeled test data.

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to enhance the cross-domain performance of pre-trained models by adapting to unlabeled test data. While most existing TTA methods rely on backpropagation (BP) for finetuning, BP-free methods such as zeroth-order (ZO) methods are more desired in…

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