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Wanyun Zhu
dblp:385/1364
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Efficient and distributed learning · 50% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
model merging |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Whoever Started the interference Should End It: Guiding Data-Free Model Merging via Task Vectors · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
task vector |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Whoever Started the interference Should End It: Guiding Data-Free Model Merging via Task Vectors · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
task vectors · 0.9linear subspace · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Whoever Started the interference Should End It: Guiding Data-Free Model Merging via Task VectorsabstractModel merging seeks to integrate task-specific expert models into a unified architecture while preserving multi-task generalization capabilities, yet parameter interference between constituent models frequently induces performance degradation. Although prior work has explored many merging strategies, resolving interference without additional data for retraining or test-time computation remains challenging. In this paper, we theoretically demonstrate that the task vectors of the linear layer constitute an approximate linear subspace for its corresponding input. Therefore, we can minimize interference under the guidance of task vectors. Based on this insight, we propose WUDI-Merging (Whoever started the interference shoUld enD It), a simple yet effective model merging method that eliminates interference without any additional data or rescaling coefficients. Comprehensive empirical evaluations across vision and language benchmarks demonstrate our method’s superiority, achieving state-of-the-art performance in data-free model merging scenarios (average 10.9% improvement versus baseline methods) while even outperforming mainstream test-time adaptation approaches by 3.3%, and only very few computing resources are required. The source code and implementation details are available at https://github.com/nathanielyvo/WUDI-Merging. Runxi Cheng, Yongxian Wei, Wanyun Zhu, Chun Yuan 0003 |
ICML | 4 |