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Large Language Models (LLMs) pruning seeks to remove unimportant weights for inference speedup with minimal accuracy impact. However, existing methods often suffer from accuracy degradation without full-model sparsity-aware fine-tuning.…

Pruning is a highly effective approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing inference latency. However, conventional training-free structured pruning methods often employ a heuristic metric that…

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The transformative impact of large language models (LLMs) like LLaMA and GPT on natural language processing is countered by their prohibitive computational demands. Pruning has emerged as a pivotal compression strategy, introducing sparsity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Guangji Bai , Yijiang Li , Chen Ling , Kibaek Kim , Liang Zhao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in recent years. Compressing these models not only reduces storage requirements, making deployment to edge devices feasible, but also accelerates inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Boyao Wang , Volodymyr Kindratenko

Most existing structured pruning methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) require substantial computational and data resources for retraining to reestablish the corrupted correlations, making them prohibitively expensive. To address this,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jiujun He , Huazhen Lin

The deployment of convolutional neural networks is often hindered by high computational and storage requirements. Structured model pruning is a promising approach to alleviate these requirements. Using the VGG-16 model as an example, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Kongtao Chen , Ken Franko , Ruoxin Sang

In this paper, we propose a novel progressive parameter pruning method for Convolutional Neural Network acceleration, named Structured Probabilistic Pruning (SPP), which effectively prunes weights of convolutional layers in a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Huan Wang , Qiming Zhang , Yuehai Wang , Haoji Hu

Convolutional neural networks are prevailing in deep learning tasks. However, they suffer from massive cost issues when working on mobile devices. Network pruning is an effective method of model compression to handle such problems. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhaofeng Si , Honggang Qi , Xiaoyu Song

Large Language Models (LLMs) present significant computational and memory challenges due to their extensive size, making pruning essential for their efficient deployment. Existing one-shot pruning methods often apply uniform sparsity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Florentin Beck , William Rudman , Carsten Eickhoff

Model pruning, i.e., removing a subset of model weights, has become a prominent approach to reducing the memory footprint of large language models (LLMs) during inference. Notably, popular inference engines, such as vLLM, enable users to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kazuki Egashira , Robin Staab , Thibaud Gloaguen , Mark Vero , Martin Vechev

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hichem Sahbi

Existing ML models are known to be highly over-parametrized, and use significantly more resources than required for a given task. Prior work has explored compressing models offline, such as by distilling knowledge from larger models into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Julian Knodt

Since high resolution remote sensing image classification often requires a relatively high computation complexity, lightweight models tend to be practical and efficient. Model pruning is an effective method for model compression. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Guangwenjie Zou , Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Xin Li , Ning Chen , Shengxiang Xu , Jun Zhou

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become more widely adopted and scale up in size, the computational and memory challenges involved in deploying these massive foundation models have grown increasingly severe. This underscores the urgent need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Omar Bazarbachi , Zijun Sun , Yanning Shen

Pruning provides a practical solution to reduce the resources required to run large language models (LLMs) to benefit from their effective capabilities as well as control their cost for training and inference. Research on LLM pruning often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuanhe Tian , Junjie Liu , Xican Yang , Haishan Ye , Yan Song

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has seen remarkable advancements with deep neural networks, such as Transformer and Conformer. However, these models typically have large model sizes and high inference costs, posing a challenge to deploy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Huiqiang Jiang , Li Lyna Zhang , Yuang Li , Yu Wu , Shijie Cao , Ting Cao , Yuqing Yang , Jinyu Li , Mao Yang , Lili Qiu

Pruning is a promising approach to compress deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional capabilities across various tasks, but their deployment is constrained by high computational and memory costs. Model pruning provides an effective means to alleviate these demands.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hao Zhang , Mengsi Lyu , Zhuo Chen , Xingrun Xing , Yulong Ao , Yonghua Lin

With the growth of demand on neural network compression methods, the structured pruning methods including importance-based approach are actively studied. The magnitude importance and many correlated modern importance criteria often limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jaeheun Jung , Jaehyuk Lee , Yeajin Lee , Donghun Lee

The rapid increase in the parameter counts of Large Language Models (LLMs), which often reach into the billions or even trillions, presents significant challenges for their practical deployment, particularly in resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yi Cao , Wei-Jie Xu , Yucheng Shen , Weijie Shi , Chi-Min Chan , Jianfeng Qu , Jiajie Xu