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Souper-Model: How Simple Arithmetic Unlocks State-of-the-Art LLM Performance research paper by Meta, 2025

Meta · Training and scaling · Nov 17, 2025 · 4 citations · 140 upvotes · unverified

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SoCE is a model souping approach that uses benchmark composition to identify and combine expert models for improved performance.

By Shalini Maiti, Amar Budhiraja, Bhavul Gauri and 8 more · arXiv 2511.13254 · PDF · Code

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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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4, 0 influential · Semantic Scholar
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140 · Hugging Face
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New summaryOct 26, 2026SoCE is a model souping approach that uses benchmark composition to identify and combine expert models for improved performance.
TopicOct 26, 2026Moved from Agents and evaluation to Training and scaling.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 0 influential citations.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 4 citations.
New paperSep 25, 2026Found by the weekly Hugging Face scan; not yet checked by hand.