PEFT welcomes new merging methodsModel merging has quickl... | PEFT welcomes new merging methodsModel merging has quickl...
PEFT welcomes new merging methods
Model merging has quickly become the de-facto standard of pushing the performance limits of large language models. On the Open LLM Leaderboard, we continue to notice merged models topping up the charts. Our very own Omar Sanseviero, made a little sprint on model merging and discovered interesting findings.

The typical way of model merging, so far, has been to take a set of models and merge them. This post gives a nice primer on this topic. Generally, for merging multiple models, we first download their checkpoints and then perform merging. Depending on the merge algorithm and the sizes of the underlying model, this process can be quite memory-intensive. The mergekit library provides optimized ways for handling this, making the process manageable on limited memory.https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/peft_merging.md blog/peft_merging.md at main · huggingface/blog