@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2025-mazo, title = "{M}a{ZO}: Masked Zeroth-Order Optimization for Multi-Task Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models", author = "Zhang, Zhen and Yang, Yifan and Zhen, Kai and Susanj, Nathan and Mouchtaris, Athanasios and Kunzmann, Siegfried and Zhang, Zheng", editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.935/", pages = "18537--18554", ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6" }