Dynamic Model Merging Made Slim
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Merge++ is a post‑hoc refinement technique for model merging that synthesizes task‑representative images by inverting expert checkpoints and then distills expert knowledge into a merged model. It operates without any additional data beyond the checkpoints and can be applied universally across existing weight‑space merging algorithms. Experiments show consistent improvements, with average gains of +2 to +8 points and up to +25.9 on specific configurations.
arXiv:2608. 09201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense expert merging combines domain-specialized language models into one single checkpoint, typically by admitting task-vector support in weight space.
FeatCal is a post‑merging calibration method that reduces feature drift between a merged model and its task experts by adjusting weights layer by layer in forward order using a small calibration set. It employs a closed‑form update that avoids gradient descent or iterative optimization. On CLIP and GLUE benchmarks, FeatCal outperforms existing calibration baselines, achieving higher accuracy with fewer calibration examples and lower computational cost.
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...
arXiv:2502. 04411v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Model merging aggregates Large Language Models (LLMs) finetuned on different tasks into a stronger one.
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.