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Binary similarity analysis is critical to many code-reuse-related issues and "1-to-1" mechanism is widely applied, where one function in a binary file is matched against one function in a source file or binary file. However, we discover…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ang Jia , Ming Fan , Wuxia Jin , Xi Xu , Zhaohui Zhou , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Ting Liu

Large language models, such as ChatGPT, Claude, or LLaMA, are gigantic, monolithic, and possess the superpower to simultaneously support thousands of tasks. However, high-throughput applications often prefer smaller task-specific models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Haoyu Yang , Zheng Zhang , Saket Sathe

Model merging, a method that combines the parameters and embeddings of multiple fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), offers a promising approach to enhance model performance across various tasks while maintaining computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Kaveh Alim , Ali ArjomandBigdeli , Akash Srivastava , Faez Ahmed , Navid Azizan

Global optimization of black-box functions from noisy samples is a fundamental challenge in machine learning and scientific computing. Traditional methods such as Bayesian Optimization often converge to local minima on multi-modal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qusay Muzaffar , David Levin , Michael Werman

Model merging combines independently trained models into a single multi-task model. However, most existing approaches focus primarily on avoiding task interference. We argue that its greater potential lies in enabling task synergy, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Aecheon Jung , Seunghwan Lee , Dongyoon Han , Sungeun Hong

The advent of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 has catalyzed the exploration of multi-task learning (MTL), in which a single model demonstrates proficiency across diverse tasks. Task arithmetic has emerged as a cost-effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yuyan Zhou , Liang Song , Bingning Wang , Weipeng Chen

In collaborative software development, program merging is the mechanism to integrate changes from multiple programmers. Merge algorithms in modern version control systems report a conflict when changes interfere textually. Merge conflicts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Elizabeth Dinella , Todd Mytkowicz , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Christian Bird , Mayur Naik , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Software engineers who collaborate to develop software in teams often have to manually merge changes they made to a module (e.g. a class), because the change conflicts with one that has just been made by another engineer to the same or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Stanislav Levin , Amiram Yehudai

Model merging aims to integrate the strengths of multiple fine-tuned models into a unified model while preserving task-specific capabilities. Existing methods, represented by task arithmetic, are typically classified into global- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Kunda Yan , Min Zhang , Sen Cui , Zikun Qu , Bo Jiang , Feng Liu , Changshui Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable, but their development often requires substantial computational resources. While model merging has emerged as a cost-effective promising approach for creating new models by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Takuya Akiba , Makoto Shing , Yujin Tang , Qi Sun , David Ha

Function calling is a fundamental capability of today's large language models, but sequential function calling posed efficiency problems. Recent studies have proposed to request function calls with parallelism support in order to alleviate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xiaoxia Liu , Peng Di , Cong Li , Jun Sun , Jingyi Wang

This work presents Adaptive Local-then-Global Merging (ALGM), a token reduction method for semantic segmentation networks that use plain Vision Transformers. ALGM merges tokens in two stages: (1) In the first network layer, it merges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Narges Norouzi , Svetlana Orlova , Daan de Geus , Gijs Dubbelman

Modern mobile applications have grown rapidly in binary size, which restricts user growth and hinders updates for existing users. Thus, reducing the binary size is important for application developers. Recent studies have shown the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Gai Liu , Umar Farooq , Chengyan Zhao , Xia Liu , Nian Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been adopted and deployed worldwide for a broad variety of applications. However, ensuring their safe use remains a significant challenge. Preference training and safety measures often overfit to harms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Aakanksha , Arash Ahmadian , Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Beyza Ermis , Marzieh Fadaee , Sara Hooker

Model merging aims to efficiently combine the weights of multiple expert models, each trained on a specific task, into a single multi-task model, with strong performance across all tasks. When applied to all but the last layer of weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ekansh Sharma , Daniel M. Roy , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Multi-task learning (MTL) is often achieved by merging datasets before fine-tuning, but the growing availability of fine-tuned models has led to new approaches such as model merging via task arithmetic. A major challenge in this setting is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Brahim Touayouch , Loïc Fosse , Géraldine Damnati , Gwénolé Lecorvé

Model merging aims to integrate multiple task-specific fine-tuned models derived from a shared pre-trained checkpoint into a single multi-task model without additional training. Despite extensive research, task interference remains a major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Longhua Li , Lei Qi , Qi Tian , Xin Geng

Current multi-modal image fusion methods typically rely on task-specific models, leading to high training costs and limited scalability. While generative methods provide a unified modeling perspective, they often suffer from slow inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Huayi Zhu , Xiu Shu , Youqiang Xiong , Qiao Liu , Rui Chen , Di Yuan , Xiaojun Chang , Zhenyu He

Approximate unlearning has gained popularity as an approach to efficiently update an LLM so that it behaves (roughly) as if it was not trained on a subset of data to begin with. However, existing methods are brittle in practice and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kevin Kuo , Amrith Setlur , Kartik Srinivas , Aditi Raghunathan , Virginia Smith

Instruction tuning is crucial for optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs), yet mainstream data selection methods heavily rely on LLMs as instruction quality scorers, leading to high computational costs and reduced data diversity. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hongyi Cai , Yuqian Fu , Hongming Fu , Bo Zhao