Resolving Interference (RI): Disentangling Models for Improved Model Merging

Researchers have developed Resolving Interference (RI), a new framework that improves AI model merging by reducing cross-task interference when combining specialized models. The method makes models functionally orthogonal to other tasks using only unlabeled data, improving merging performance by up to 3.8% and generalization by up to 2.3%.