@article{counteringcatastrophicforgettingoflargel, title = {Countering Catastrophic Forgetting of Large Language Models for Better Instruction Following via Weight-Space Model Merging}, author = {Mengxian Lyu and Cheng Peng and Ziyi Chen and Mengyuan Zhang and Jieting Li Lu and Yonghui Wu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.01538}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01538}, }