Multi-objective Evolutionary Merging Enables Efficient Reasoning Models
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arXiv:2604.06465v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning models achieve strong performance on complex problems by leveraging long chains of thought, but this deliberate reasoning incurs substantial inference-time cost. The Long-to-Short (L2S) reasoning problem seeks to preserve accuracy while reducing generated tokens. Yet, current training-free model merging approaches rely on brittle, fixed-hyperparameter arithmetic methods that force suboptimal compromises. We introduce \textbf{Evo-L2S}, a multi-objective evolutionary model merging framework that explicitly optimizes accuracy and
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.06465v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning models achieve strong performance on complex problems by leveraging long chains of thought, but this deliberate reasoning incurs substantial inference-time cost.
- The Long-to-Short (L2S) reasoning problem seeks to preserve accuracy while reducing generated tokens.
- Yet, current training-free model merging approaches rely on brittle, fixed-hyperparameter arithmetic methods that force suboptimal compromises.
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“Multi-objective Evolutionary Merging Enables Efficient Reasoning Models” 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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