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MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs

As of 23 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 14 of 14 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2502.10436.

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This paper cites In particular, for θ = θ∗, F (θ∗; D) − F (θ∗; ¯D) ≤ ϵ.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs In particular, for θ = θ∗, F (θ∗; D) − F (θ∗; ¯D) ≤ ϵ

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This paper cites Because θ∗ is the minimizer of F (·; D), F (ˆθ; D) ≥ F (θ∗; D).

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs Because θ∗ is the minimizer of F (·; D), F (ˆθ; D) ≥ F (θ∗; D)

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This paper cites The first term is ≤ 0 (since ˆθ is a minimizer on ¯D), and the second term is ≤ ϵ.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs The first term is ≤ 0 (since ˆθ is a minimizer on ¯D), and the second term is ≤ ϵ

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This paper cites The first term is ≤ 0 (since θ∗ is a minimizer on D), and the second term is ≤ ϵ.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs The first term is ≤ 0 (since θ∗ is a minimizer on D), and the second term is ≤ ϵ

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This paper cites Hence F (θ∗; D) − F (ˆθ; ¯D) ≤ ϵ, completing the proof.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs Hence F (θ∗; D) − F (ˆθ; ¯D) ≤ ϵ, completing the proof

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This paper cites In table 2 we outline the supported merging methods, while in table 3 we outline the currently available evolutionary al- gorithms.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs In table 2 we outline the supported merging methods, while in table 3 we outline the currently available evolutionary al- gorithms

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This paper cites In each experiment, the pop- ulation size was fixed to 25 and the number of iterations to 7.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs In each experiment, the pop- ulation size was fixed to 25 and the number of iterations to 7

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This paper cites Mistral 7B.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs Mistral 7B

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This paper cites acl-long.229/.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs acl-long.229/

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This paper cites doi: 10.1109/access.2020.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs doi: 10.1109/access.2020

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This paper cites Model Merging in LLMs, MLLMs, and Beyond: Methods, Theories, Applications and Opportunities.

MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs Model Merging in LLMs, MLLMs, and Beyond: Methods, Theories, Applications and Opportunities

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Mergenetic: a Simple Evolutionary Model Merging Library cites this paper.

Mergenetic: a Simple Evolutionary Model Merging Library MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs

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StatsMerging: Statistics-Guided Model Merging via Task-Specific Teacher Distillation cites this paper.

StatsMerging: Statistics-Guided Model Merging via Task-Specific Teacher Distillation MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs

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Model Merging: Foundations and Algorithms cites this paper.

Model Merging: Foundations and Algorithms MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs

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