Exploring Heterogeneous Model Merging Approach for Complex Knowledge Transfer

arXiv:2609.39369 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, 7 tables. Preprint

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Model Merging — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Distillation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Mixture of Experts — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Rethinking Heterogeneous LLM Merging: A Weighted Model Averaging Perspective
• HM3: Heterogeneous Multi-Class Model Merging
• AdaMMS: Model Merging for Heterogeneous Multimodal Large Language Models with Unsupervised Coefficient Optimization
• Program Synthesis with Large Language Models

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