@inproceedings{an-etal-2026-mitigating, title = "Mitigating Model Merging Conflicts via Knowledge-Aware Task Vector Purification", author = "An, Bang and Yang, Yibo and Torr, Philip and Ghanem, Bernard", 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.200/", pages = "4572--4590", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }