3 papers
cs.CL2025
Arcee's MergeKit: A Toolkit for Merging Large Language Models
Charles Goddard, Shamane Siriwardhana, Malikeh Ehghaghi +5
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. Advances…
cs.CL2024
Merging in a Bottle: Differentiable Adaptive Merging (DAM) and the Path from Averaging to Automation
Thomas Gauthier-Caron, Shamane Siriwardhana, Elliot Stein +5
By merging models, AI systems can combine the distinct strengths of separate language models, achieving a balance between multiple capabilities without requiring substantial retrai…
cs.CL2024
Domain Adaptation of Llama3-70B-Instruct through Continual Pre-Training and Model Merging: A Comprehensive Evaluation
Shamane Siriwardhana, Mark McQuade, Thomas Gauthier +8
We conducted extensive experiments on domain adaptation of the Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct model on SEC data, exploring its performance on both general and domain-specific benchmarks…