arXiv:2606. 18627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging has emerged as a training-free alternative to multi-task learning, aiming to combine multiple task-specific fine-tuned models into a single multi-task model.
By Ningyuan Shi, Zhipeng Zhou, Hao Wang, Chunyan Miao, Peilin Zhao
arXiv:2606. 19164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging aims to enable multi-task learning by integrating the capabilities of multiple models fine-tuned from the same pre-trained checkpoint into a single model.
By Longhua Li, Lei Qi, Xin Geng, Qi Tian
arXiv:2510.14697v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Model merging aims to integrate task-specific abilities from individually fine-tuned models into a single model without extra training. In recent m...
By Bang An, Yibo Yang, Philip Torr, Bernard Ghanem
arXiv:2606.19164v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Model merging enables training-free multi-task learning by aggregating knowledge from models fine-tuned from a shared checkpoint, but their t...
By Longhua Li, Lei Qi, Qi Tian, Xin Geng
CRLoMTL is a parameter‑efficient multi‑task learning framework that mitigates task interference by operating in a low‑rank parameter‑update space rather than gradient space. It learns task‑specific LoRA updates and fuses them through a shared‑subspace resolver based on singular value decomposition, producing a single deployment‑time update that can be folded into the backbone. Experiments on Swin Transformer backbones across PASCAL‑Context, NYUD‑v2, and CelebA show that CRLoMTL improves accuracy over single‑task baselines while training only a small fraction of the parameters.
By Ahmed Agiza, Tasneem Shaffee, Rahil Badkul, Sherief Reda
arXiv:2610.07990v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Model merging aims to build a multi-task model cheaply by combining the weights of individual task-specific models. To perform well across multiple tas...
By Sin-Han Yang, Shih-Cheng Huang, Chieh-Yen Lin, Yun-Nung Chen, Shao-Hua Sun, Hung-yi Lee
Multi-task model merging aims to consolidate several task-specific experts into a unified model, yet static merging consistently suffers from parameter interference. While dynamic merging models aim to bridge this gap, many works rely on the costly storage and loading of redundant expert components at inference.
arXiv:2610.33483v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Model merging combines task-specific expert models into a single model without joint training on their original datasets, but often incurs a performa...
By Yeseul Cho, Hanseul Cho, Chulhee Yun
arXiv:2312. 06173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Merging models fine-tuned from a common, extensively pre-trained large model but specialized for different tasks has been demonstrated as a cheap and scalable strategy to construct a multi-task model that performs well across diverse tasks.
By Anke Tang, Xianglin Luo, Li Shen, Yong Luo, Liang Ding, Han Hu, Bo Du, Dacheng Tao
The paper introduces a new multi‑task model‑merging framework that tackles task interference by projecting task vectors into a high‑dimensional sparse feature space using Sparse Autoencoders, enabling feature‑level disentanglement before fusion. It also proposes a lightweight Group‑Ranked Zeroth‑Order Optimizer to identify task‑critical layers for selective merging, reducing computational overhead. Experiments on Qwen2.5‑1.5B and Qwen2.5‑7B show consistent performance gains over several baselines across reasoning, code generation, instruction following, and general knowledge tasks, with a 2.78% improvement in a highly conflicting four‑task setting.
By Yihang Zhang, Shengke Sun, Junjie Wen, Feng Zeng
arXiv:2606. 26902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-task model merging aims to consolidate several task-specific experts into a unified model, yet static merging consistently suffers from parameter interference.
By Jinwook Jung, Taegyu Kim, Kumju Jo, Sungyong Baik
arXiv:2609.24517v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Model merging aims to combine multiple fine-tuned models derived from a common pretrained model into a single multi-task model without additional joi...
By Hyunjoong Cho, Jinhyeok Jang