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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across various tasks, yet their high computational demands pose deployment challenges, especially on consumer-grade hardware. Mixture of Experts (MoE) models provide an efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 En-Ming Huang , Li-Shang Lin , Chun-Yi Lee

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has emerged as a promising approach to scale up deep learning models due to its significant reduction in computational resources. However, the dynamic nature of MoE leads to load imbalance among experts, severely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chenqi Zhao , Wenfei Wu , Linhai Song , Yuchen Xu , Yitao Yuan

As several industries are moving towards modeling massive 3D virtual worlds, the need for content creation tools that can scale in terms of the quantity, quality, and diversity of 3D content is becoming evident. In our work, we aim to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jun Gao , Tianchang Shen , Zian Wang , Wenzheng Chen , Kangxue Yin , Daiqing Li , Or Litany , Zan Gojcic , Sanja Fidler

Merge conflicts created by software team members working on the same code can be costly to resolve, and adversely affect productivity. In this work, we suggest the approach of fine-grained merge conflict awareness, where software team…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Stanislav Levin , Amiram Yehudai

In this paper, we address the challenges associated with merging low-rank adaptations of large neural networks. With the rise of parameter-efficient adaptation techniques, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), model fine-tuning has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Aniello Panariello , Daniel Marczak , Simone Magistri , Angelo Porrello , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Simone Calderara , Joost van de Weijer

Advancements in AI have greatly enhanced the medical imaging process, making it quicker to diagnose patients. However, very few have investigated the optimization of a multi-model system with hardware acceleration. As specialized edge…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Ashiyana Abdul Majeed , Mahmoud Meribout , Safa Mohammed Sali

Foundation models update slowly due to resource-intensive training, whereas domain-specific models evolve rapidly between releases. Model merging seeks to combine multiple expert models into a single, more capable model, reducing storage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yongxian Wei , Runxi Cheng , Weike Jin , Enneng Yang , Li Shen , Lu Hou , Sinan Du , Chun Yuan , Xiaochun Cao , Dacheng Tao

While LLMs excel at general tasks, they struggle in specialized domains like finance, requiring diverse skills in domain knowledge, mathematical reasoning, and multilingual processing. Merging domain-specific Continual Pre-training (CPT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kentaro Ueda , François Portet , Hirohiko Suwa , Keiichi Yasumoto

Recent advances in deep learning have led to a surge of open-source models across diverse domains. While model merging offers a promising way to combine their strengths, existing approaches often suffer from parameter conflicts that degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yunfei Liang

In this work, we present Qwen3, the latest version of the Qwen model family. Qwen3 comprises a series of large language models (LLMs) designed to advance performance, efficiency, and multilingual capabilities. The Qwen3 series includes…

This paper introduces Multi-population Ensemble Genetic Programming (MEGP), a computational intelligence framework that integrates cooperative coevolution and the multiview learning paradigm to address classification challenges in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mohammad Sadegh Khorshidi , Navid Yazdanjue , Hassan Gharoun , Mohammad Reza Nikoo , Fang Chen , Amir H. Gandomi

Knowledge hypergraph embedding models are usually computationally expensive due to the inherent complex semantic information. However, existing works mainly focus on improving the effectiveness of knowledge hypergraph embedding, making the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhao Li , Xin Wang , Jun Zhao , Wenbin Guo , Jianxin Li

Adapting to diverse user needs at test time is a key challenge in controllable multi-objective generation. Existing methods are insufficient: merging-based approaches provide indirect, suboptimal control at the parameter level, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Guofu Xie , Chen Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Yunsheng Shi , Ting Yao , Jun Xu

Evaluating high-dimensional integrals via deep hierarchical recurrences is a dominant cost in quantum chemistry. While CPUs manage these efficiently, GPUs suffer a critical mismatch: limited per-thread memory is quickly overwhelmed by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Yihong Zhang , Xinran Wei , Junshi Chen , Fusong Ju , Wei Hu , Jinlong Yang , Huanhuan Xia

Evolutionary Robotics offers the possibility to design robots to solve a specific task automatically by optimizing their morphology and control together. However, this co-optimization of body and control is challenging, because controllers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 K. Ege de Bruin , Kyrre Glette , Kai Olav Ellefsen

In this paper, we introduce a new embedding model called M3-Embedding, which is distinguished for its versatility in \textit{Multi-Linguality}, \textit{Multi-Functionality}, and \textit{Multi-Granularity}. It provides a uniform support for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jianlv Chen , Shitao Xiao , Peitian Zhang , Kun Luo , Defu Lian , Zheng Liu

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

Merging multiple Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) experts into a single backbone is a promising approach for efficient multi-task deployment. While existing methods strive to alleviate interference via weight interpolation or subspace alignment,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anda Cao , Zhuo Gou , Yi Wang , Kaixuan Chen , Yu Wang , Can Wang , Mingli Song , Jie Song

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

Recent studies show that ensemble methods enhance the stability and robustness of unsupervised learning. These approaches are successfully utilized to construct multiple clustering and combine them into a one representative consensus…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Elaheh Rashedi , Abdolreza Mirzaei