@article{navigatingtheopensourcemodelecosystemane,
  title = {Navigating the Open-Source Model Ecosystem: An Empirical Study of Creator Practices in Artistic Image Generation},
  author = {Yiluo Wei and Yupeng He and Qiming Ye and Gareth Tyson},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2607.10538},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10538},
}