Souper-Model: How Simple Arithmetic Unlocks State-of-the-Art LLM Performance
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| author | Maiti, Shalini Budhiraja, Amar Gauri, Bhavul Chaurasia, Gaurav Protopopov, Anton Audran-Reiss, Alexis Slater, Michael Magka, Despoina Shavrina, Tatiana Raileanu, Roberta Bachrach, Yoram |
| author_facet | Maiti, Shalini Budhiraja, Amar Gauri, Bhavul Chaurasia, Gaurav Protopopov, Anton Audran-Reiss, Alexis Slater, Michael Magka, Despoina Shavrina, Tatiana Raileanu, Roberta Bachrach, Yoram |
| contents | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, but their training remains resource- and time-intensive, requiring massive compute power and careful orchestration of training procedures. Model souping-the practice of averaging weights from multiple models of the same architecture-has emerged as a promising pre- and post-training technique that can enhance performance without expensive retraining. In this paper, we introduce Soup Of Category Experts (SoCE), a principled approach for model souping that utilizes benchmark composition to identify optimal model candidates and applies non-uniform weighted averaging to maximize performance. Contrary to previous uniform-averaging approaches, our method leverages the observation that benchmark categories often exhibit low inter-correlations in model performance. SoCE identifies "expert" models for each weakly-correlated category cluster and combines them using optimized weighted averaging rather than uniform weights. We demonstrate that the proposed method improves performance and robustness across multiple domains, including multilingual capabilities, tool calling, and math and achieves state-of-the-art results on the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard. |
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| spellingShingle | Souper-Model: How Simple Arithmetic Unlocks State-of-the-Art LLM Performance Maiti, Shalini Budhiraja, Amar Gauri, Bhavul Chaurasia, Gaurav Protopopov, Anton Audran-Reiss, Alexis Slater, Michael Magka, Despoina Shavrina, Tatiana Raileanu, Roberta Bachrach, Yoram Computation and Language Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, but their training remains resource- and time-intensive, requiring massive compute power and careful orchestration of training procedures. Model souping-the practice of averaging weights from multiple models of the same architecture-has emerged as a promising pre- and post-training technique that can enhance performance without expensive retraining. In this paper, we introduce Soup Of Category Experts (SoCE), a principled approach for model souping that utilizes benchmark composition to identify optimal model candidates and applies non-uniform weighted averaging to maximize performance. Contrary to previous uniform-averaging approaches, our method leverages the observation that benchmark categories often exhibit low inter-correlations in model performance. SoCE identifies "expert" models for each weakly-correlated category cluster and combines them using optimized weighted averaging rather than uniform weights. We demonstrate that the proposed method improves performance and robustness across multiple domains, including multilingual capabilities, tool calling, and math and achieves state-of-the-art results on the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard. |
| title | Souper-Model: How Simple Arithmetic Unlocks State-of-the-Art LLM Performance |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13254 |