Sam-clip: Merging vision foundation models towards semantic and spatial understanding

H Wang, PKA Vasu, F Faghri… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The landscape of publicly available vision foundation models (VFMs) such as CLIP and
SAM is expanding rapidly. VFMs are endowed with distinct capabilities stemming from their …

Model merging in llms, mllms, and beyond: Methods, theories, applications and opportunities

E Yang, L Shen, G Guo, X Wang, X Cao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Model merging is an efficient empowerment technique in the machine learning community
that does not require the collection of raw training data and does not require expensive …

Model breadcrumbs: Scaling multi-task model merging with sparse masks

MR Davari, E Belilovsky - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
The rapid development of AI systems has been greatly influenced by the emergence of
foundation models. A common approach for targeted problems involves fine-tuning these …

Learning from models beyond fine-tuning

H Zheng, L Shen, A Tang, Y Luo, H Hu, B Du… - Nature Machine …, 2025 - nature.com
Foundation models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks,
primarily due to their abilities to comprehend instructions and access extensive, high-quality …

Maxfusion: Plug&play multi-modal generation in text-to-image diffusion models

NG Nair, JMJ Valanarasu, VM Patel - European Conference on Computer …, 2024 - Springer
Large diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models have shown impressive generative
powers for text-to-image generation and spatially conditioned image generation. We can …

Arcee's MergeKit: A Toolkit for Merging Large Language Models

C Goddard, S Siriwardhana, M Ehghaghi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rapid expansion of the open-source language model landscape presents an opportunity
to merge the competencies of these model checkpoints by combining their parameters …

Deep model fusion: A survey

W Li, Y Peng, M Zhang, L Ding, H Hu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Deep model fusion/merging is an emerging technique that merges the parameters or
predictions of multiple deep learning models into a single one. It combines the abilities of …

Adamerging: Adaptive model merging for multi-task learning

E Yang, Z Wang, L Shen, S Liu, G Guo, X Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to empower a model to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously.
A recent development known as task arithmetic has revealed that several models, each fine …

Model merging with SVD to tie the Knots

G Stoica, P Ramesh, B Ecsedi, L Choshen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent model merging methods demonstrate that the parameters of fully-finetuned models
specializing in distinct tasks can be combined into one model capable of solving all tasks …

You only merge once: Learning the pareto set of preference-aware model merging

W Chen, J Kwok - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.12105, 2024 - arxiv.org
Model merging, which combines multiple models into a single model, has gained increasing
popularity in recent years. By efficiently integrating the capabilities of various models without …