2026
Developmental Federated Tuning: A Cognitive-Inspired Paradigm for Efficient LLM Adaptation
ICLR 2026poster
Federated fine-tuning enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to adapt to downstream tasks while preserving data privacy, but its resource-intensive nature severely limits deployment on edge devices. In this paper, we introduce Developmental Federated Tuning (DevFT), a resource-efficient approach inspi…