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most citedModel Merging in LLMs, MLLMs, and Beyond: Methods, Theories, Applications and Opportunities

7 citations · 18 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.LG2026

Enhancing Protein Representation Learning via Manifold Restore Mixing

Yizhou Dang, Chuang Zhao, Lianbo Ma +3

Data augmentation (DA) has been proven to be an effective means for improving protein representation learning (PRL) by generating additional training samples. Although mainstream p…

cs.IR2026

Pay Attention to Sequence Split: Uncovering the Impacts of Sub-Sequence Splitting on Sequential Recommendation Models

Yizhou Dang, Yifan Wu, Minhan Huang +5

Sub-sequence splitting (SSS) has been demonstrated as an effective approach to mitigate data sparsity in sequential recommendation (SR) by splitting a raw user interaction sequence…

cs.IR2026

Tail-Aware Data Augmentation for Long-Tail Sequential Recommendation

Yizhou Dang, Zhifu Wei, Minhan Huang +4

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns user preferences based on their historical interaction sequences and provides personalized suggestions. In real-world scenarios, most users ca…

cs.CV2025

MoFu: Scale-Aware Modulation and Fourier Fusion for Multi-Subject Video Generation

Run Ling, Ke Cao, Jian Lu +15

Multi-subject video generation aims to synthesize videos from textual prompts and multiple reference images, ensuring that each subject preserves natural scale and visual fidelity.…

cs.LG2025

Causal Negative Sampling via Diffusion Model for Out-of-Distribution Recommendation

Chu Zhao, Eneng Yang, Yizhou Dang +3

Heuristic negative sampling enhances recommendation performance by selecting negative samples of varying hardness levels from predefined candidate pools to guide the model toward l…

cs.IR2025

RAGAR: Retrieval Augmented Personalized Image Generation Guided by Recommendation

Run Ling, Wenji Wang, Yuting Liu +12

Personalized image generation is crucial for improving the user experience, as it renders reference images into preferred ones according to user visual preferences. Although effect…

cs.IR2025

Data Augmentation as Free Lunch: Exploring the Test-Time Augmentation for Sequential Recommendation

Yizhou Dang, Yuting Liu, Enneng Yang +4

Data augmentation has become a promising method of mitigating data sparsity in sequential recommendation. Existing methods generate new yet effective data during model training to…

cs.CL2025

Efficient and Effective Prompt Tuning via Prompt Decomposition and Compressed Outer Product

Pengxiang Lan, Haoyu Xu, Enneng Yang +4

Prompt tuning (PT) offers a cost-effective alternative to fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained language models (PLMs), requiring only a few parameters in soft prompt tokens added be…

cs.LG2025

Distributionally Robust Graph Out-of-Distribution Recommendation via Diffusion Model

Chu Zhao, Enneng Yang, Yuliang Liang +3

The distributionally robust optimization (DRO)-based graph neural network methods improve recommendation systems' out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization by optimizing the model's…

cs.IR2024

Augmenting Sequential Recommendation with Balanced Relevance and Diversity

Yizhou Dang, Jiahui Zhang, Yuting Liu +5

By generating new yet effective data, data augmentation has become a promising method to mitigate the data sparsity problem in sequential recommendation. Existing works focus on au…

cs.IR2024

Self-supervised Hierarchical Representation for Medication Recommendation

Yuliang Liang, Yuting Liu, Yizhou Dang +5

Medication recommender is to suggest appropriate medication combinations based on a patient's health history, e.g., diagnoses and procedures. Existing works represent different dia…

cs.LG2024

SurgeryV2: Bridging the Gap Between Model Merging and Multi-Task Learning with Deep Representation Surgery

Enneng Yang, Li Shen, Zhenyi Wang +5

Model merging-based multitask learning (MTL) offers a promising approach for performing MTL by merging multiple expert models without requiring access to raw training data. However…

cs.IR2024

Data Augmentation for Sequential Recommendation: A Survey

Yizhou Dang, Enneng Yang, Yuting Liu +4

As an essential branch of recommender systems, sequential recommendation (SR) has received much attention due to its well-consistency with real-world situations. However, the wides…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Symmetric Graph Contrastive Learning against Noisy Views for Recommendation

Chu Zhao, Enneng Yang, Yuliang Liang +3

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) leverages data augmentation techniques to produce contrasting views, enhancing the accuracy of recommendation systems through learning the consiste…

cs.IR2024

CoRA: Collaborative Information Perception by Large Language Model's Weights for Recommendation

Yuting Liu, Jinghao Zhang, Yizhou Dang +5

Involving collaborative information in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a promising technique for adapting LLMs for recommendation. Existing methods achieve this by concatenating co…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Model Merging in LLMs, MLLMs, and Beyond: Methods, Theories, Applications and Opportunities

Enneng Yang, Li Shen, Guibing Guo +4

Model merging is an efficient empowerment technique in the machine learning community that does not require the collection of raw training data and does not require expensive compu…

cs.LG2024

Graph Representation Learning via Causal Diffusion for Out-of-Distribution Recommendation

Chu Zhao, Enneng Yang, Yuliang Liang +5

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)-based recommendation algorithms typically assume that training and testing data are drawn from independent and identically distributed (IID) spaces. Ho…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Efficient Prompt Tuning by Multi-Space Projection and Prompt Fusion

Pengxiang Lan, Enneng Yang, Yuting Liu +3

Prompt tuning is a promising method to fine-tune a pre-trained language model without retraining its large-scale parameters. Instead, it attaches a soft prompt to the input text, w…

cs.IR2024

Towards Unified Modeling for Positive and Negative Preferences in Sign-Aware Recommendation

Yuting Liu, Yizhou Dang, Yuliang Liang +4

Recently, sign-aware graph recommendation has drawn much attention as it will learn users' negative preferences besides positive ones from both positive and negative interactions (…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Repeated Padding+: Simple yet Effective Data Augmentation Plugin for Sequential Recommendation

Yizhou Dang, Yuting Liu, Enneng Yang +4

Sequential recommendation aims to provide users with personalized suggestions based on their historical interactions. When training sequential models, padding is a widely adopted t…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Representation Surgery for Multi-Task Model Merging

Enneng Yang, Li Shen, Zhenyi Wang +4

Multi-task learning (MTL) compresses the information from multiple tasks into a unified backbone to improve computational efficiency and generalization. Recent work directly merges…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

ID Embedding as Subtle Features of Content and Structure for Multimodal Recommendation

Yuting Liu, Enneng Yang, Yizhou Dang +5

Multimodal recommendation aims to model user and item representations comprehensively with the involvement of multimedia content for effective recommendations. Existing research ha…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

AdaMerging: Adaptive Model Merging for Multi-Task Learning

Enneng Yang, Zhenyi Wang, Li Shen +4

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to empower a model to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously. A recent development known as task arithmetic has revealed that several models, each fine…

cs.LG2023

Continual Learning From a Stream of APIs

Enneng Yang, Zhenyi Wang, Li Shen +5

Continual learning (CL) aims to learn new tasks without forgetting previous tasks. However, existing CL methods require a large amount of raw data, which is often unavailable due t…