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Model merging aims to combine multiple task-specific expert models into a single model without joint retraining, offering a practical alternative to multi-task learning when data access or computational budget is limited. Existing methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kaiyang Li , Shaobo Han , Qing Su , Shihao Ji

Task arithmetic refers to editing the pre-trained model by adding a weighted sum of task vectors, each of which is the weight update from the pre-trained model to fine-tuned models for certain tasks. This approach recently gained attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hongkang Li , Yihua Zhang , Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen

Task arithmetic has emerged as a simple yet powerful technique for model merging, enabling the combination of multiple finetuned models into one. Despite its empirical success, a clear theoretical explanation of why and when it works is…

We propose new algorithms for singular value decomposition (SVD) of very large-scale matrices based on a low-rank tensor approximation technique called the tensor train (TT) format. The proposed algorithms can compute several dominant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Namgil Lee , Andrzej Cichocki

Singular value decomposition (SVD) is a widely used technique for dimensionality reduction and computation of basis vectors. In many applications, especially in fluid mechanics and image processing the matrices are dense, but low-rank…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Vinita Vasudevan , M. Ramakrishna

We propose a compression based continual task learning method that can dynamically grow a neural network. Inspired from the recent model compression techniques, we employ compression-aware training and perform low-rank weight approximations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Varigonda Pavan Teja , Priyadarshini Panda

In this paper, we address the multi-view subspace clustering problem. Our method utilizes the circulant algebra for tensor, which is constructed by stacking the subspace representation matrices of different views and then rotating, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Yuan Xie , Dacheng Tao , Wensheng Zhang , Lei Zhang , Yan Liu , Yanyun Qu

Task arithmetic is a straightforward yet highly effective strategy for model merging, enabling the resultant model to exhibit multi-task capabilities. Recent research indicates that models demonstrating linearity enhance the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Rui Dai , Sile Hu , Xu Shen , Yonggang Zhang , Xinmei Tian , Jieping Ye

Model merging (e.g., via interpolation or task arithmetic) fuses multiple models trained on different tasks to generate a multi-task solution. The technique has been proven successful in previous studies, where the models are trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yi-Lin Sung , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Zhe Gan , Mohit Bansal , Lijuan Wang

Task vectors capture how a model changes during fine-tuning by recording the difference between pre-trained and task-specific weights. The composition of task vectors, a key operator in task arithmetic, enables models to integrate knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Boyuan Zhang , Yingjun Du , Xiantong Zhen , Ling Shao

In this paper we propose novel methods for compression and recovery of multilinear data under limited sampling. We exploit the recently proposed tensor- Singular Value Decomposition (t-SVD)[1], which is a group theoretic framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Zemin Zhang , Gregory Ely , Shuchin Aeron , Ning Hao , Misha Kilmer

Model merging aims to combine multiple task-specific expert models into a single model while preserving generalization across diverse tasks. However, interference among experts, especially when they are trained on different objectives,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Bo Xu , Haotian Wu , Hehai Lin , Weiquan Huang , Beier Zhu , Yao Shu , Chengwei Qin

Changing how pre-trained models behave -- e.g., improving their performance on a downstream task or mitigating biases learned during pre-training -- is a common practice when developing machine learning systems. In this work, we propose a…

Merging models fine-tuned from a common, extensively pre-trained large model but specialized for different tasks has been demonstrated as a cheap and scalable strategy to construct a multi-task model that performs well across diverse tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Anke Tang , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Liang Ding , Han Hu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Machine unlearning aims to selectively remove specific knowledge from a trained model. Existing approaches, such as Task Arithmetic, fine-tune the model on the forget set to create a task vector (i.e., a direction in weight space) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Hyo Seo Kim , Dongyoon Han , Junsuk Choe

Twin support vector machine (TWSVM) and twin support vector regression (TSVR) are newly emerging efficient machine learning techniques which offer promising solutions for classification and regression challenges respectively. TWSVM is based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 M. Tanveer , T. Rajani , R. Rastogi , Y. H. Shao , M. A. Ganaie

While transfer learning is an effective strategy, it often overlooks the opportunity to leverage knowledge from numerous available models online. Addressing this multi-source transfer learning problem is a promising path to boost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Marcin Osial , Bartosz Wójcik , Bartosz Zieliński , Sebastian Cygert

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

Model merging provides a compelling paradigm for integrating specialized expertise into a unified multi-task model, a goal that aligns naturally with the sequential knowledge acquisition in continual learning (CL). However, the requirement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xi Wang , Cheng Deng

In the era of large language models, model merging is a promising way to combine multiple task-specific models into a single multitask model without extra training. However, two challenges remain: (a) interference between different models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zhenyi Lu , Chenghao Fan , Wei Wei , Xiaoye Qu , Dangyang Chen , Yu Cheng