@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-universally,
    title = "Universally Empowering Zeroth-Order Optimization via Adaptive Layer-wise Sampling",
    author = "Wang, Fei  and
      Shen, Li  and
      Ding, Liang  and
      Xue, Chao  and
      Liu, Ye  and
      Ding, Changxing",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1999/",
    pages = "40218--40239",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}