ReForge: Refining Merged Models with Anchor-Regularized Regression
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arXiv:2605.12843v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 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 model merging methods rarely exploit strong merged models as priors for further improvement. To address this limitation, we propose ReForge, a bilevel optimization framework that formulates module-wise refinement as Bayesian linear regression with an anchor-centered prior. The inner level yields a closed-form
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2605.12843v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 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 model merging methods rarely exploit strong merged models as priors for further improvement.
- To address this limitation, we propose ReForge, a bilevel optimization framework that formulates module-wise refinement as Bayesian linear regression with an anchor-centered prior.
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“ReForge: Refining Merged Models with Anchor-Regularized Regression” should be evaluated beyond branding and benchmark scores. Its practical importance will emerge in task accuracy, latency, unit cost, safety and integration with real workflows.
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