@inproceedings{song-etal-2026-optimer, title = "{O}pti{M}er: Optimal Distribution Vector Merging Is Better than Data Mixing for Continual Pre-Training", author = "Song, Haiyue and Vu, Huy Hien and Utiyama, Masao", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1090/", doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.1090", pages = "25034--25054", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }