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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with limited data poses a practical challenge in low-resource languages, specialized domains, and constrained deployment settings. While pre-trained LLMs provide strong foundations, effective…

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Large language models (LLMs) offer a scalable mechanism to elicit domain-informed prior information for high-dimensional variable selection. However, existing methods such as LLM-Lasso are sensitive to weight quality, with performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-25 Caleb Skinner , Yihan Guo , Meng Li

Neural network pruning is a promising technique to mitigate the excessive computational and memory requirements of large language models (LLMs). Despite its promise, however, progress in this area has diminished, as conventional methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kwanhee Lee , Hyeondo Jang , Dongyeop Lee , Dan Alistarh , Namhoon Lee

We propose a novel Two-Stage framework for Structured Pruning (\textsc{2SSP}) for pruning Large Language Models (LLMs), which combines two different strategies of pruning, namely Width and Depth Pruning. The first stage (Width Pruning)…

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Recent work has shown that layer pruning can effectively compress large language models (LLMs) while retaining strong performance on classification benchmarks, often with little or no finetuning. In contrast, generative reasoning tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Safal Shrestha , Anubhav Shrestha , Aadim Nepal , Minwu Kim , Keith Ross

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have advanced significantly by integrating visual encoders with extensive language models, enabling robust reasoning capabilities. However, compressing LMMs for deployment on edge devices remains a critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Te Zhang , Yuheng Li , Junxiang Wang , Lujun Li

Pruning large language models (LLMs) is a challenging task due to their enormous size. The primary difficulty is fine-tuning the model after pruning, which is needed to recover the lost performance caused by dropping weights. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Vladimír Boža

Large Language Models (LLMs) have experienced significant growth and development in recent years. However, performing inference on LLMs remains costly, especially for long-context inference or in resource-constrained devices. This motivates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Diego Coello de Portugal Mecke , Tom Hanika , Lars Schmidth-Thieme

State-of-the-art language models (LMs) represented by long-short term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) and Transformers are becoming increasingly complex and expensive for practical applications. Low-bit neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Junhao Xu , Jianwei Yu , Shoukang Hu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Multilingual LLM performance is often critically dependent on model size. With an eye on efficiency, this has led to a surge in interest in one-shot pruning methods that retain the benefits of large-scale pretraining while shrinking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Rochelle Choenni , Ivan Titov

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…

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Fine-tuning and inference with large Language Models (LM) are generally known to be expensive. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning over pretrained LMs reduces training memory by updating a small number of LM parameters but does not improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bowen Zhao , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Qingqing Cao

Large language models deliver strong generative performance but at the cost of massive parameter counts, memory use, and decoding latency. Prior work has shown that pruning and structured sparsity can preserve accuracy under substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Andrew Kiruluta

Structured sparsity has emerged as a popular model pruning technique, widely adopted in various architectures, including CNNs, Transformer models, and especially large language models (LLMs) in recent years. A promising direction to further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zekai Li , Ji Liu , Guanchen Li , Yixing Xu , Ziqiong Liu , Xuanwu Yin , Dong Li , Emad Barsoum

Designing an explainable model becomes crucial now for Natural Language Processing(NLP) since most of the state-of-the-art machine learning models provide a limited explanation for the prediction. In the spectrum of an explainable model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Rohan Kumar Yadav , Bimal Bhattarai , Abhik Jana , Lei Jiao , Seid Muhie Yimam

State-of-the-art language models are becoming increasingly large in an effort to achieve the highest performance on large corpora of available textual data. However, the sheer size of the Transformer architectures makes it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Yuki M. Asano , Tijmen Blankevoort

Large Language Models have become the core architecture upon which most modern natural language processing (NLP) systems build. These models can consistently deliver impressive accuracy and robustness across tasks and domains, but their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Daniel Campos , Alexandre Marques , Tuan Nguyen , Mark Kurtz , ChengXiang Zhai

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across tasks but incur substantial computational costs due to their deep, multi-layered architectures. Layer pruning has emerged as a strategy to alleviate these inefficiencies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Anhao Zhao , Fanghua Ye , Yingqi Fan , Junlong Tong , Zhiwei Fei , Hui Su , Xiaoyu Shen

The colossal parameters and computational overhead of Large Language Models (LLMs) challenge their real-world applications. Network pruning, which targets unstructured or structured sparsity by removing redundant parameters, has recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yuxin Wang , Minghua Ma , Zekun Wang , Jingchang Chen , Huiming Fan , Liping Shan , Qing Yang , Dongliang Xu , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

Although large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal understanding and reasoning, their practical applications are still limited by massive model parameters and high computational costs.…

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