arXiv:2606. 22589v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ever since the advent of foundation models and the pre-training-finetuning paradigm, there have been numerous efforts to merge multiple task-specific experts into a single multi-task model.
By Jungyong Son, Jinwook Jung, Sungyong Baik
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
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:2608. 12842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging has recently attracted significant attention as a promising paradigm for constructing unified multi-task models without requiring additional retraining.
By Yuchen Liu, Zongzhen Yang, Binhang Qi, Hailong Sun, Xiang Gao
arXiv:2602. 07218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adaptability has been regarded as a central feature in the foundation models, enabling them to effectively acclimate to unseen downstream tasks.
By Gagik Magakyan, Amirhossein Reisizadeh, Chanwoo Park, Pablo A. Parrilo, Asuman Ozdaglar
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:2608. 01184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-free continual model merging must incorporate a stream of specialized models while retaining both pretrained general knowledge and previously acquired tasks, without access to task data.
By Zihuan Qiu, Zhiyang Liao, Chiyuan He, Yi Xu, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
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:2607. 20561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LoRA adapters provide an efficient way to specialize a pretrained model for many downstream tasks, but deploying one adapter per task requires adapter storage and task selection at inference time.
By Keumseo Ryum, Joonhyuk Kang
arXiv:2606. 00511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging aims to consolidate multiple task-specific models fine-tuned on different datasets into a unified architecture that performs cross-domain proficiency.
By Jungin Park, Jiyoung Lee, Kwanghoon Sohn
arXiv:2502. 01015v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task arithmetic, representing downstream tasks through linear operations on task vectors, has emerged as a simple yet powerful paradigm for transferring knowledge across diverse settings.
By Siqi Zeng, Yifei He, Meitong Liu, Weiqiu You, Yifan Hao, Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Makoto Yamada, Han Zhao
arXiv:2606. 19549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) makes it cheap to train many domain- and task-specific language model adapters, but whether two adapters can be merged is usually discovered only after both have been fully trained and evaluated.
By Lin Tang, Wei Zhang, Jing Li, Hongyu Chen, Ming Zhao, Yuxuan Wang