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Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the landscape of artificial intelligence, while their enormous size presents significant challenges in terms of computational costs. We introduce LoRAShear, a novel efficient approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Tianyi Chen , Tianyu Ding , Badal Yadav , Ilya Zharkov , Luming Liang

Large language models (LLMs) have proven to be highly effective across various natural language processing tasks. However, their large number of parameters poses significant challenges for practical deployment. Pruning, a technique aimed at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jiwon Song , Kyungseok Oh , Taesu Kim , Hyungjun Kim , Yulhwa Kim , Jae-Joon Kim

Large language models (LLMs) offer powerful capabilities but incur substantial computational costs, driving the need for efficient compression techniques. This study evaluates the impact of popular compression methods - Magnitude Pruning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Bishwash Khanal , Jeffery M. Capone

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) is largely hindered by their large number of parameters. Structural pruning has emerged as a promising solution. Prior structured pruning methods directly remove unimportant parameters based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mingkuan Feng , Jinyang Wu , Siyuan Liu , Shuai Zhang , Hongjian Fang , Ruihan Jin , Feihu Che , Pengpeng Shao , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao

Over the past decade, the use of machine learning has increased exponentially. Models are far more complex than ever before, growing to gargantuan sizes and housing millions of weights. Unfortunately, the fact that large models have become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Aditya Panangat

Large language models (LLMs) often develop learned mechanisms specialized to specific datasets, such as reliance on domain-specific correlations, which yield high-confidence predictions without generalizable reasoning. While beneficial in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ameen Ali , Shahar Katz , Lior Wolf , Ivan Titov

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) integrate information from multiple modalities and have shown remarkable success across various tasks. However, deploying large-scale VLMs in resource-constrained scenarios is challenging. Pruning followed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Shwai He , Ang Li , Tianlong Chen

Recently, pre-trained language representation flourishes as the mainstay of the natural language understanding community, e.g., BERT. These pre-trained language representations can create state-of-the-art results on a wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Fu-Ming Guo , Sijia Liu , Finlay S. Mungall , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

Deep Neural Networks have been used in a wide variety of applications with significant success. However, their highly complex nature owing to comprising millions of parameters has lead to problems during deployment in pipelines with low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Elvis Johnson , Xiaochen Tang , Sriramacharyulu Samudrala

Large language models have been shown to memorize significant portions of their training data, which they can reproduce when appropriately prompted. This work investigates the impact of simple pruning techniques on this behavior. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mansi Gupta , Nikhar Waghela , Sarthak Gupta , Shourya Goel , Sanjif Shanmugavelu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become pivotal in advancing the field of artificial intelligence, yet their immense sizes pose significant challenges for both fine-tuning and deployment. Current post-training pruning methods, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xudong Lu , Aojun Zhou , Yuhui Xu , Renrui Zhang , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Introduced in the late 1980s for generalization purposes, pruning has now become a staple for compressing deep neural networks. Despite many innovations in recent decades, pruning approaches still face core issues that hinder their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Hugo Tessier , Vincent Gripon , Mathieu Léonardon , Matthieu Arzel , Thomas Hannagan , David Bertrand

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) relies heavily on their substantial scale, which poses significant challenges during model deployment in terms of latency and memory consumption. Recently, numerous studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Weiyu Huang , Yuezhou Hu , Guohao Jian , Jun Zhu , Jianfei Chen

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant success across multi-modal tasks. However, the computational cost of processing long visual tokens can be prohibitively expensive on resource-limited devices. Previous methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xubing Ye , Yukang Gan , Yixiao Ge , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Yansong Tang

Pruning is a widely used technique to compress large language models (LLMs) by removing unimportant weights, but it often suffers from significant performance degradation - especially under semi-structured sparsity constraints. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Tianteng Gu , Bei Liu , Bo Xiao , Ke Zeng , Jiacheng Liu , Yanmin Qian

Although recent quantized Large Language Models (LLMs), such as BitNet, have paved the way for significant reduction in memory usage during deployment with binary or ternary weights, training these models still demands substantial memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Kaiyan Zhao , Tsuguchika Tabaru , Kenichi Kobayashi , Takumi Honda , Masafumi Yamazaki , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Deep neural networks have been the predominant paradigm in machine learning for solving cognitive tasks. Such models, however, are restricted by a high computational overhead, limiting their applicability and hindering advancements in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ian Pons , Bruno Yamamoto , Anna H. Reali Costa , Artur Jordao

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known for their expensive and time-consuming training. Thus, oftentimes, LLMs are fine-tuned to address a specific task, given the pretrained weights of a pre-trained LLM considered a foundation model. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Eshed Gal , Moshe Eliasof , Javier Turek , Uri Ascher , Eran Treister , Eldad Haber

Various Large Language Models~(LLMs) from the Generative Pretrained Transformer(GPT) family have achieved outstanding performances in a wide range of text generation tasks. However, the enormous model sizes have hindered their practical use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hang Shao , Bei Liu , Bo Xiao , Ke Zeng , Guanglu Wan , Yanmin Qian

Large Language Models (LLMs) have grown increasingly expensive to deploy, driving the need for effective model compression techniques. While block pruning offers a straightforward approach to reducing model size, existing methods often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo , Haiyue Song , Hideki Tanaka , Masao Utiyama , Alham Fikri Aji , Raj Dabre