@article{mitigatingnoniiddriftinzerothorder, title = {Mitigating Non-IID Drift in Zeroth-Order Federated LLM Fine-Tuning with Transferable Sparsity}, author = {Yide Ran and Wentao Guo and Jingwei Sun and Yanzhou Pan and Xiaodong Yu and Hao Wang and Jianwen Xie and Yiran Chen and Denghui Zhang and Zhaozhuo Xu}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2506.03337}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03337v1}, }