@article{replacingparameterswithpreferencesfedera, title = {Replacing Parameters with Preferences: Federated Alignment of Heterogeneous Vision-Language Models}, author = {Shule Lu and Yujing Wang and Hainan Zhang and Xiaoshan Yang and Hongwei Zheng and Yongxin Tong and Changsheng Xu and Zhiming Zheng}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.00485}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00485}, }