@article{backtothebarnwithllamasevolvingpretraine,
  title = {Back to the Barn with LLAMAs: Evolving Pretrained LLM Backbones in Finetuning Vision Language Models},
  author = {Sameera Horawalavithana and Lauren Phillips and Ian Stewart and Sai Munikoti and Karl Pazdernik},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.10985},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10985},
}