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Multi-Focus Image Fusion seeks to improve the quality of an acquired burst of images with different focus planes. For solving the task, an activity level measurement and a fusion rule are typically established to select and fuse the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Fidel Alejandro Guerrero Peña , Pedro Diamel Marrero Fernández , Tsang Ing Ren , Germano Crispim Vasconcelos , Alexandre Cunha

This paper introduces an innovative multi-modal fusion deep learning approach to overcome the drawbacks of traditional single-modal recognition techniques. These drawbacks include incomplete information and limited diagnostic accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xiaoyi Liu , Hongjie Qiu , Muqing Li , Zhou Yu , Yutian Yang , Yafeng Yan

Model merging has gained prominence in machine learning as a method to integrate multiple trained models into a single model without accessing the original training data. While existing approaches have demonstrated success in domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Vipul Garg , Ishita Thakre , Sayan Ranu

Modern deep learning usually treats models as separate artifacts: trained independently, specialized for particular purposes, and replaced when improved versions appear. This thesis studies model merging as an alternative paradigm:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Donato Crisostomi

Model merging has attracted significant attention as a powerful paradigm for model reuse, facilitating the integration of task-specific models into a singular, versatile framework endowed with multifarious capabilities. Previous studies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhengqi Xu , Han Zheng , Jie Song , Li Sun , Mingli Song

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models has become the prevalent paradigm for building downstream NLP models. Oftentimes fine-tuned models are readily available but their training data is not, due to data privacy or intellectual property…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xisen Jin , Xiang Ren , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro , Pengxiang Cheng

This paper proposes \textit{layer fusion} - a model compression technique that discovers which weights to combine and then fuses weights of similar fully-connected, convolutional and attention layers. Layer fusion can significantly reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 James O' Neill , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Model merging enables powerful capabilities in neural networks without requiring additional training. In this paper, we introduce a novel perspective on model merging by leveraging the fundamental mechanisms of neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Haiquan Qiu , You Wu , Dong Li , Jianmin Guo , Quanming Yao

In this paper, we present a novel data-free method for merging neural networks in weight space. Differently from most existing works, our method optimizes for the permutations of network neurons globally across all layers. This allows us to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Donato Crisostomi , Marco Fumero , Daniele Baieri , Florian Bernard , Emanuele Rodolà

Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

Typical deep visual recognition models are capable of performing the one task they were trained on. In this paper, we tackle the extremely difficult problem of combining distinct models with different initializations, each solving a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 George Stoica , Daniel Bolya , Jakob Bjorner , Pratik Ramesh , Taylor Hearn , Judy Hoffman

Merging multiple expert models offers a promising approach for performing multi-task learning without accessing their original data. Existing methods attempt to alleviate task conflicts by sparsifying task vectors or promoting orthogonality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongxian Wei , Anke Tang , Li Shen , Zixuan Hu , Chun Yuan , Xiaochun Cao

Deep learning based fusion methods have been achieving promising performance in image fusion tasks. This is attributed to the network architecture that plays a very important role in the fusion process. However, in general, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Jiwen Lu , Josef Kittler

In the fields of image restoration and image fusion, model-driven methods and data-driven methods are the two representative frameworks. However, both approaches have their respective advantages and disadvantages. The model-driven methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Huanfeng Shen , Menghui Jiang , Jie Li , Chenxia Zhou , Qiangqiang Yuan , Liangpei Zhang

Image fusion plays a key role in a variety of multi-sensor-based vision systems, especially for enhancing visual quality and/or extracting aggregated features for perception. However, most existing methods just consider image fusion as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Risheng Liu , Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

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

Image fusion seeks to integrate complementary information from multiple sources into a single, superior image. While traditional methods are fast, they lack adaptability and performance. Conversely, deep learning approaches achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ran Zhang , Xuanhua He , Liu Liu

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models, particularly large language models, demands extensive computing resources and can result in varying performance outcomes across different domains and datasets. This paper examines the approach of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Guodong Du , Jing Li , Hanting Liu , Runhua Jiang , Shuyang Yu , Yifei Guo , Sim Kuan Goh , Ho-Kin Tang

Relying on either deep models or physical models are two mainstream approaches for solving inverse sample reconstruction problems in programmable illumination computational microscopy. Solutions based on physical models possess strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Ruiqing Sun , Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Qun Hao

Learning an effective global model on private and decentralized datasets has become an increasingly important challenge of machine learning when applied in practice. Existing distributed learning paradigms, such as Federated Learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Tengfei Ma , Trong Nghia Hoang , Jie Chen