arXiv AI

Mitigating Model Merging Conflicts via Knowledge-Aware Task Vector Purification

arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

CRLoMTL: Conflict-Resolution through Low-rank matrices for Multi-Task Learning

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

Learning to Recover Task Experts from a Multi-Task Merged Model

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 Machine Learning
Jun 16

Concrete Subspace Learning based Interference Elimination for Multi-task Model Fusion

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Model Merging via Data-Free Covariance Estimation

The paper introduces a data‑free method for model merging that estimates per‑layer covariance matrices directly from difference matrices, eliminating the need for auxiliary data. This approach reduces computational costs while maintaining a principled interference‑minimization framework. Experiments on vision and language benchmarks with models from 86 M to 7 B parameters show that the method outperforms existing data‑free merging techniques.

By Marawan Gamal Abdel Hameed, Derek Tam, Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo, Colin Raffel, Guillaume Rabusseau