arXiv:2607. 18026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can large language models with substantially different parameter spaces be merged by direct weighted averaging, without training or semantic alignment?
By Jiahe Fan, Yinghao Hou, Si Chen, Aiyuan Zhang, Hong Xie, Defu Lian
CoMerge is a conflict‑driven preference optimization framework for merging multiple expert language models into a single multi‑task model without full retraining. It treats model merging as a preference optimization problem, using self‑supervised, conflict‑driven hard negative samples derived from naive merging defects to refine lightweight, tensor‑wise merging coefficients. Experiments show CoMerge achieves near‑perfect performance on MergeBench and improves instruction‑following and safety on Llama‑3.1‑8B‑Instruct while optimizing only 1,445 scalar coefficients.
By Mingjie Zheng, Zihao Chen, Wenqing Chen, Weile Yuan, Zhixuan Chu, Jianxing Yu, Zibin Zheng
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
arXiv:2602. 12323v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The widespread availability of fine-tuned LoRA modules for open pre-trained models has led to an interest in methods that can adaptively merge LoRAs to improve performance.
By Haokun Liu, Gyung Hyun Je, Marco Ciccone, Zhenlin Xu, Prasanth YSS, Colin Raffel
CoMerge introduces a conflict‑driven preference optimization framework for merging multi‑task large language models, reframing merging as a preference problem that uses self‑supervised hard negative samples derived from naive merging defects. By optimizing lightweight, tensor‑wise merging coefficients, the method mitigates parameter‑space conflicts while preserving task‑specific capabilities. Experiments show CoMerge achieves an average normalized performance of 0.9968 on MergeBench and improves conflict‑sensitive tasks on Llama‑3.1‑8B‑Instruct, outperforming both data‑free and data‑driven baselines while optimizing only 1,445 scalar coefficients.
arXiv:2605.07111v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent literature on fine-tuning Large Language Models highlights a fundamental debate. While Full Fine-Tuning (FFT) provides greater represe...
By Haozhan Tang, Xiuqi Zhu, Xinyin Zhang, Boxun Li, Virginia Smith, Kevin Kuo