# Candidate references NOT yet verified (do not cite)

• Lenc & Vedaldi (2015) "Understanding image representations by measuring their equivariance and equivalence" — origin of stitching layers; arXiv id to confirm.
• Hinton, Vinyals & Dean (2015) "Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network" (arXiv 1503.02531) — distillation baseline; id to confirm.
• Lindsey et al. (2024) "Sparse crosscoders for cross-layer features and model diffing" (transformer-circuits.pub) — no arXiv id.
• Makelov, Lange & Nanda (2023) "Is this the subspace you are looking for? An interpretability illusion for subspace activation patching" — id to confirm.
• Csiszárik et al. (2021) "Similarity and matching of neural network representations" (stitching) — id to confirm.
• Moschella et al. (2022) "Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication" — id to confirm.
• Wortsman et al. (2022) "Model soups" — id to confirm.
• Wan et al. (2024) "Knowledge Fusion of Large Language Models" (FuseLLM) — id to confirm.
• Transport and Merge: Cross-Architecture Merging for LLMs (2026?) — surfaced by search without id.
• Venue metadata for verified arXiv entries (e.g. 2506.06609 NeurIPS 2025 spotlight; 2302.06600 ICML 2023; 2310.15213 ICLR 2024; 2301.04709 JMLR 2025) — add only after checking the proceedings page.