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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

Model merging, such as model souping, is the practice of combining different models with the same architecture together without further training. In this work, we present a model merging methodology that addresses the difficulty of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Lucas Bandarkar , Benjamin Muller , Pritish Yuvraj , Rui Hou , Nayan Singhal , Hongjiang Lv , Bing Liu

Model merging seeks to integrate task-specific expert models into a unified architecture while preserving multi-task generalization capabilities, yet parameter interference between constituent models frequently induces performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Runxi Cheng , Feng Xiong , Yongxian Wei , Wanyun Zhu , Chun Yuan

Multi-task learning (MTL) compresses the information from multiple tasks into a unified backbone to improve computational efficiency and generalization. Recent work directly merges multiple independently trained models to perform MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Enneng Yang , Li Shen , Zhenyi Wang , Guibing Guo , Xiaojun Chen , Xingwei Wang , Dacheng Tao

Pretrained Transformer based models finetuned on domain specific corpora have changed the landscape of NLP. However, training or fine-tuning these models for individual tasks can be time consuming and resource intensive. Thus, a lot of…

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) involves the concurrent training of multiple tasks, offering notable advantages for dense prediction tasks in computer vision. MTL not only reduces training and inference time as opposed to having multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

Adapting general-purpose language models to new skills is currently an expensive process that must be repeated as new instruction datasets targeting new skills are created, or can cause the models to forget older skills. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jacob Morrison , Noah A. Smith , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Pang Wei Koh , Jesse Dodge , Pradeep Dasigi

Endowing models with consistent multilingual performance can be achieved by mixing pre-training data, or post-training approaches such as language-specific model merging. In this work, we test whether merging can be applied to monolingually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Seth Aycock , Fedor Vitiugin , Aleksandr Umnov , Christof Monz , Khalil Sima'an

Model merging enables efficient multi-task models by combining task-specific fine-tuned checkpoints. However, storing multiple task-specific checkpoints requires significant memory, limiting scalability and restricting model merging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Youngeun Kim , Seunghwan Lee , Aecheon Jung , Bogon Ryu , Sungeun Hong

Multimodal representation learning is fundamentally about transforming incomparable modalities into comparable representations. While prior research primarily focused on explicitly aligning these representations through targeted learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Megan Tjandrasuwita , Chanakya Ekbote , Liu Ziyin , Paul Pu Liang

Adapting large language models (LLMs) to new languages typically involves continual pre-training (CT) followed by supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, this CT-then-SFT approach struggles with limited data in the context of low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Mingxu Tao , Chen Zhang , Quzhe Huang , Tianyao Ma , Songfang Huang , Dongyan Zhao , Yansong Feng

Multi-task learning is to improve the performance of the model by transferring and exploiting common knowledge among tasks. Existing MTL works mainly focus on the scenario where label sets among multiple tasks (MTs) are usually the same,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Quan Feng , Songcan Chen

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

In this paper, we study multi-target domain adaptation of scene understanding models. While previous methods achieved commendable results through inter-domain consistency losses, they often assumed unrealistic simultaneous access to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Wenyi Li , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Beiwen Tian , Rong Zhi , Hao Zhao

Multi-task learning is a type of transfer learning that trains multiple tasks simultaneously and leverages the shared information between related tasks to improve the generalization performance. However, missing features in the input matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-09 Xin J. Hunt , Saba Emrani , Ilknur Kaynar Kabul , Jorge Silva

Task embedding, a meta-learning technique that captures task-specific information, has gained popularity, especially in areas such as multi-task learning, model editing, and interpretability. However, it faces challenges with the emergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xinyu Wang , Hainiu Xu , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Selecting the best data mixture is critical for successful Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) of Multimodal Large Language Models. However, determining the optimal mixture weights across multiple domain-specific datasets remains a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Davide Berasi , Matteo Farina , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci

Deep learning models are often deployed in downstream tasks that the training procedure may not be aware of. For example, models solely trained to achieve accurate predictions may struggle to perform well on downstream tasks because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Dishank Bansal , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Mustafa Mukadam , Brandon Amos

The recent advances in neural language models have also been successfully applied to the field of chemistry, offering generative solutions for classical problems in molecular design and synthesis planning. These new methods have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Dimitrios Christofidellis , Giorgio Giannone , Jannis Born , Ole Winther , Teodoro Laino , Matteo Manica

Task And Motion Planning (TAMP) is the problem of finding a solution to an automated planning problem that includes discrete actions executable by low-level continuous motions. This field is gaining increasing interest within the robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Elisa Tosello , Alessandro Valentini , Andrea Micheli