@inproceedings{Zhang2026Beyond,
  title={Beyond Layer-Wise Merging: Chain-of-Merging for Vision-Language Models},
  author={Zhang, Xinyu and Dong, Yuxuan and Zhang, Lingling and Jia, Chengyou and Dang, Zhangxun and Yao, Yuan and Wu, Yanrui and Fernando, Basura and Liu, Jun},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2026},
  note={Accepted}
}