@article{sparsityawareevolutionformodelmerging,
  title = {Sparsity-Aware Evolution for Model Merging},
  author = {Huan Zhang and Yanjian Zhang and Guillaume Wisniewski and Nadi Tomeh and Bang Liu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.08218},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08218},
}