# Sakana AI — Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2025-08-24T15:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Sakana models
- Source: https://sakana.ai/m2n2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4709-competition-and-attraction-improve-model-fusion

Sakana AI announces a new research paper, 'Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion', presented at GECCO'25, which proposes M2N2 (Model Merging of Natural Niches), a method that evolves merging boundaries, uses competition for diversity, and employs attraction for mate selection to improve model fusion.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/m2n2:

> We’re excited to share our new work: “Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion” presented at GECCO’25🦎 where it was a runner-up for best paper!

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