Ensemble Learning for Large Language Models in Text and Code Generation: A Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13505v2
• Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:07:50 GMT
• Title: Ensemble Learning for Large Language Models in Text and Code Generation: A Survey
• Authors: Mari Ashiga, Wei Jie, Fan Wu, Vardan Voskanyan, Fateme Dinmohammadi, Paul Brookes, Jingzhi Gong, Zheng Wang,
• Abstract summary: This article reviews emerging ensemble approaches to enhance understanding, encourage further research, and promote practical implementation in both text and code generation.<n>We categorize Large Language Models into seven main methods - weight merging, knowledge fusion, mixture-of-experts, output ensemble, routing, and cascading.<n>Our findings highlight key benefits such as improved diversity representation, enhanced output quality, and greater application flexibility.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPTs) are foundational Large Language Models (LLMs) for text generation. However, individual LLMs often produce inconsistent outputs and exhibit biases, limiting their representation of diverse language patterns. The closed-source nature of many powerful LLMs further restricts industry applications due to data privacy concerns. Inspired by successes in text generation, LLM ensemble techniques are now increasingly explored for code generation. This article reviews these emerging ensemble approaches to enhance understanding, encourage further research, and promote practical implementation in both text and code generation. We categorize LLM ensembles into seven main methods - weight merging, knowledge fusion, mixture-of-experts, reward ensemble, output ensemble, routing, and cascading - analyzing capabilities of those approaches. Our findings highlight key benefits such as improved diversity representation, enhanced output quality, and greater application flexibility. These insights aid model selection for real-world tasks and crucially, lay groundwork for extending ensemble strategies to multimodal LLMs.

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