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Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 13 of 13 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.11797.

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measured 13 of 13 reference resolution

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measured 13 of 13 standing notices

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Observation 03413ae4-05e4-47dd-a6bf-c515215633e0 · outbound

This paper cites Layer-Aware Task Arithmetic: Disentangling Task-Specific and Instruction-Following Knowledge.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models Layer-Aware Task Arithmetic: Disentangling Task-Specific and Instruction-Following Knowledge

Reference 1

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Observation b10ec944-91d5-4a82-a489-8ed759f10874 · outbound

This paper cites Task Singular Vectors: Reducing Task Interference in Model Merging.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models Task Singular Vectors: Reducing Task Interference in Model Merging

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Observation f6232d59-162d-4c70-badd-cfb95fb06d8c · outbound

This paper cites Task Arithmetic in the Tangent Space: Improved Editing of Pre-Trained Models.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models Task Arithmetic in the Tangent Space: Improved Editing of Pre-Trained Models

Reference 8

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Observation 3484d36e-d36e-4cee-bffa-515a895e1059 · outbound

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

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models SurgeryV2: Bridging the Gap Between Model Merging and Multi-Task Learning with Deep Representation Surgery

Reference 10

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Observation d5aa07fa-24d0-4919-84e5-aae902cc87ac · outbound

This paper cites Zhanpeng Zhou, Zijun Chen, Yilan Chen, Bo Zhang, and Junchi Yan.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models Zhanpeng Zhou, Zijun Chen, Yilan Chen, Bo Zhang, and Junchi Yan

Reference 11

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Observation aa448aa2-8fbb-42b1-bfb3-d3a977cd18e5 · outbound

This paper cites On the Emergence of Cross-Task Linearity in the Pretraining-Finetuning Paradigm.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models On the Emergence of Cross-Task Linearity in the Pretraining-Finetuning Paradigm

Reference 12

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Observation 030e9d64-696d-4fbc-b4de-f1516016d142 · outbound

This paper cites stable reversal.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models stable reversal

Reference 13

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Observation 59d38153-d60c-4634-9da1-ca5cdfbbd642 · outbound

This paper cites The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

Reference 2012

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Observation 5899902e-bc0b-4015-ad23-17101c5be4ce · outbound

This paper cites To See a World in a Spark of Neuron: Disentangling Multi-task Interference for Training-free Model Merging.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models To See a World in a Spark of Neuron: Disentangling Multi-task Interference for Training-free Model Merging

Reference 2021

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Observation 86642dfe-8e5c-417f-a708-d95cbcb5edf8 · outbound

This paper cites PKU-SafeRLHF: Towards Multi-Level Safety Alignment for LLMs with Human Preference.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models PKU-SafeRLHF: Towards Multi-Level Safety Alignment for LLMs with Human Preference

Reference 2023

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Observation 0e4e2153-09e1-4da9-9388-e36accb6bb11 · outbound

This paper cites Activated Parameter Locating via Causal Intervention for Model Merging.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models Activated Parameter Locating via Causal Intervention for Model Merging

Reference 2024

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Observation 33fd9001-f021-4751-9538-fce6840eddf3 · outbound

This paper cites Whoever Started the Interference Should End It: Guiding Data-Free Model Merging via Task Vectors.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models Whoever Started the Interference Should End It: Guiding Data-Free Model Merging via Task Vectors

Reference 2025

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Observation 7c63f496-3e66-40c4-a956-1714e632361b · outbound

This paper cites Gabriel Ilharco, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Mitchell Wortsman, Suchin Gururangan, Ludwig Schmidt, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, and Ali Farhadi.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models Gabriel Ilharco, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Mitchell Wortsman, Suchin Gururangan, Ludwig Schmidt, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, and Ali Farhadi

Reference 2026

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