[DonsDiscountGas]

I didn't know model merging like that was possible. (Obviously possible from a pure software standpoint but I'm surprised it's effective)

[bwhitty]

As another poster above linked, it’s been shown to be effective since 2022: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05482

[nightpool]

it works because Nex N2 is also a derivative of the original base Qwen model. If it was two completely unrelated models it wouldn't work.

[baobabKoodaa]

A few years back these used to be called "Frankenstein models"

[hypercube33]

Even merging models with themselves as shown here in the post how they got to the top of hugging face with two gpus