@article{pivotmergebridgingheterogeneousmultimoda,
  title = {PivotMerge: Bridging Heterogeneous Multimodal Pre-training via Post-Alignment Model Merging},
  author = {Zibo Shao and Baochen Xiong and Xiaoshan Yang and Yaguang Song and Qimeng Zhang and Haifeng Chen and Changsheng Xu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.22823},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22823},
}