@inproceedings{gao-etal-2025-bypass,
    title = "Bypass Back-propagation: Optimization-based Structural Pruning for Large Language Models via Policy Gradient",
    author = "Gao, Yuan  and
      Liu, Zujing  and
      Zhang, Weizhong  and
      Du, Bo  and
      Xia, Gui-Song",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.acl-long.1421/",
    pages = "29356--29377",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0"
}