@inproceedings{fan-etal-2026-fedproxy,
    title = "{F}ed{P}roxy: Federated Fine-Tuning of {LLM}s via Proxy {SLM}s and Heterogeneity-Aware Fusion",
    author = "Fan, Tao  and
      Ma, Guoqiang  and
      Song, Yuanfeng  and
      Fan, Lixin  and
      Chen, Kai  and
      Yang, Qiang",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.794/",
    pages = "17482--17497",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}