Pith Number

pith:EOB54FRI

pith:2025:EOB54FRIR6EOBGRGKJWIXITUSP

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Why Do More Experts Fail? A Theoretical Analysis of Model Merging

Daling Wang, Hinrich Sch\"utze, Peiqin Lin, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Xingle Xu, Yiqun Zhang, Yongkang Liu, Zijing Wang

arxiv:2505.21226 v2 · 2025-05-27 · cs.LG

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4 papers in Pith

Model Merging to Evolution: Parameter Space Exploration for Expert Models

DiM\textsuperscript{3}: Bridging Multilingual and Multimodal Models via Direction- and Magnitude-Aware Merging

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

DiM\textsuperscript{3}: Bridging Multilingual and Multimodal Models via Direction- and Magnitude-Aware Merging

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:15:00.464347Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2383de16288f88e09a26526c8ba27493e42c9c6a89f493ba324c2365562b299c

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.21226 · arxiv_version: 2505.21226v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.21226 · pith_short_12: EOB54FRIR6EO · pith_short_16: EOB54FRIR6EOBGRG · pith_short_8: EOB54FRI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EOB54FRIR6EOBGRGKJWIXITUSP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 2383de16288f88e09a26526c8ba27493e42c9c6a89f493ba324c2365562b299c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3f3b524550443535b7161b44940e52cde942bd973572044845fe56f55fca6ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-27T14:10:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d6c30ce360af68936c910953311f4e59049e33db6eba8b36bb447909b8c496f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.21226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}