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Chenxi Jia

2 accepted papers

2026

Extra-Merge: Tracing the Rank-1 Subspace of Model Merging in Language Model Pre-Training

ICML 2026poster

Model merging has emerged as a lightweight paradigm for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we analyze late-stage pre-training trajectories and uncover a \textbf{Rank-1 Subspace} phenomenon: while raw optimization steps oscill…

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2026

The Stability of Singular Distribution: A Spectral Perspective on the Two-Phase Dynamics of Language Model Pre-training

ICML 2026poster

Large language model pre-training typically exhibits a two-phase trajectory: a fast initial loss drop followed by a prolonged slow improvement. We identify an underlying spectral phenomenon, Stability of Singular Distribution (SoSD), where the trace-normalized singular value spectrum stabilizes earl…

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