@article{onthelimitsofmodelmergingformultilingual,
  title = {On the Limits of Model Merging for Multilinguality in Pre-Training},
  author = {Seth Aycock and Fedor Vitiugin and Aleksandr Umnov and Christof Monz and Khalil Sima'an},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.25846},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25846},
}