Ax Stefan Horoi, Benjamin Th\'erien, Guy Wolf, Eugene Belilovsky 24d ago

Can Model Merging Improve Aggregation in DiLoCo?

Investigation of model merging techniques for improving aggregation in DiLoCo distributed learning, combining independent finetuned models.

Ax Zhilong Zhang, Hongli Yu, Huan-ang Gao, Hanlin Wu, Yuxuan Song, Wei-Ying Ma, Ya-Qin Zhang, Hao Zhou 24d ago

Spectral Rewiring for Exploration, Purification, and Model Merging

Spectral rewiring technique for RL post-training of LLMs, addressing reasoning saturation and model merging interference through targeted parameter updates.

Ax Muhammad Sabih, Frank Hannig, J\"urgen Teich 24d ago

Rethinking Neural Nonlinearity as Gating

Shows neural nonlinearity can be achieved through input-conditioned threshold gating as alternative to activation functions, unifying standard activations.

Ax Kaixuan Liu, Guojun Xiong, Weinan Zhang, Shengpu Tang 24d ago

Social Networks of LLM Agents

Studies how populations of LLM agents form collective beliefs and whether they aggregate genuine knowledge or collapse into false consensus.