@article{
qing2026the,
title={The Pitfalls of Text Degeneration when Aligning {LLM}s through Model Merge},
author={Peijun Qing and Lei Hsiung and Hefan Zhang and Haiquan Lu and Xingjian Diao and Chiyu Ma and Saeed Hassanpour and Soroush Vosoughi},
journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
issn={2835-8856},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=zJAy9Tt9DX},
note={}
}