arXiv AI By S. Aaron McClendon

When Model Merging Rivals Joint Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning: A Task-Vector Geometry Analysis

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arXiv:2607. 16062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging is promoted as a substitute for joint multi-task training, yet in the reinforcement-learning setting this substitution is essentially never tested against the baseline it claims to replace: methods merge independently released agents precisely because a joint model is unavailable.

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Sparsity Curse: Understanding RLVR Model Parameter Space from Model Merging

arXiv:2606. 18521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm that surpasses Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) in eliciting reasoning intelligence and resisting catastrophic forgetting.

By Chenrui Wu, Zexi Li, Jiajun Bu, Jiangchuan Liu, Haishuai Wang