A Broader Look at Model Merging: Rethinking Implicit Regularization Induced by Task Arithmetic

arXiv:2610.07990 · cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Model Merging — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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