@inproceedings{he-etal-2025-right, title = "The Right Time Matters: Data Arrangement Affects Zero-Shot Generalization in Instruction Tuning", author = "He, Bingxiang and Ding, Ning and Qian, Cheng and Deng, Jia and Cui, Ganqu and Yuan, Lifan and Hong, Haiwen and Gao, Huan-ang and Huang, Longtao and Xue, Hui and Chen, Huimin and Liu, Zhiyuan and Sun, Maosong", editor = "Che, Wanxiang and Nabende, Joyce and Shutova, Ekaterina and Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher", booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025", month = jul, year = "2025", address = "Vienna, Austria", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.findings-acl.13/", pages = "222--243", ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5" }