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In AI research, the optimization of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains a significant challenge, crucial for advancing the field's practical applications and sustainability. Building upon the foundational work of Professor Song Han's lab…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Tim Valicenti , Justice Vidal , Ritik Patnaik

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

Understanding and shaping the behaviour of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly important as applications become more powerful and more frequently adopted. This paper introduces a machine unlearning method specifically designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Nicholas Pochinkov , Nandi Schoots

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in natural language processing tasks, yet their massive size makes serving them inefficient and costly. Semi-structured pruning has emerged as an effective method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Hongyi Liu , Rajarshi Saha , Zhen Jia , Youngsuk Park , Jiaji Huang , Shoham Sabach , Yu-Xiang Wang , George Karypis

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across various tasks, but the escalating demands on computational resources pose significant challenges, particularly in the extensive utilization of full fine-tuning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jia-Hong Huang , Yixian Shen , Hongyi Zhu , Stevan Rudinac , Evangelos Kanoulas

Pre-trained language models achieve superior performance but are computationally expensive. Techniques such as pruning and knowledge distillation have been developed to reduce their sizes and latencies. In this work, we propose a structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ziqing Yang , Yiming Cui , Xin Yao , Shijin Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver state-of-the-art capabilities across numerous tasks, but their immense size and inference costs pose significant computational challenges for practical deployment. While structured pruning offers a…

Pre-trained language models (PrLM) have to carefully manage input units when training on a very large text with a vocabulary consisting of millions of words. Previous works have shown that incorporating span-level information over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Rongzhou Bao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP), but their size creates computational bottlenecks. We introduce a novel approach to create accurate, sparse foundational versions of performant LLMs that…

Making large language models (LLMs) more efficient in memory, latency, and serving cost is crucial for edge deployment, interactive applications, and sustainable inference at scale. Pruning is a promising technique, but existing pruning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Eugene Kwek , Wenpeng Yin

With the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs), structured pruning has become a widely used technique to learn efficient, smaller models from larger ones, delivering superior performance compared to training similarly sized models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bairu Hou , Qibin Chen , Jianyu Wang , Guoli Yin , Chong Wang , Nan Du , Ruoming Pang , Shiyu Chang , Tao Lei

The impressive performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various natural language processing tasks comes at the cost of vast computational resources and storage requirements. One-shot pruning techniques offer a way to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiang Meng , Kayhan Behdin , Haoyue Wang , Rahul Mazumder

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)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Fabrizio Sandri , Elia Cunegatti , Giovanni Iacca

The remarkable performance of large language models (LLMs) in various language tasks has attracted considerable attention. However, the ever-increasing size of these models presents growing challenges for deployment and inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jiayu Qin , Jianchao Tan , Kefeng Zhang , Xunliang Cai , Wei Wang

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their exceptional performance in various complex code generation tasks. However, their broader adoption is limited by significant computational demands and high resource requirements,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Laura Puccioni , Alireza Farshin , Mariano Scazzariello , Changjie Wang , Marco Chiesa , Dejan Kostic

Pruning is widely recognized as an effective method for reducing the parameters of large language models (LLMs), potentially leading to more efficient deployment and inference. One classic and prominent path of LLM one-shot pruning is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mingluo Su , Huan Wang

The high computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) motivate methods that reduce parameter count and accelerate inference. In response, model pruning emerges as an effective strategy, yet current methods typically focus on a…

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance across multi-modal tasks by encoding images into thousands of tokens. However, the large number of image tokens results in significant computational overhead, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaiyuan Li , Xiaoyue Chen , Chen Gao , Yong Li , Xinlei Chen

Deep learning drives a new wave in computing systems and triggers the automation of increasingly complex problems. In particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced cognitive tasks, often matching or even surpassing…