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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

Modern large language models (LLMs) achieve state-of-the-art machine translation performance, but they do so as broad generalists largely trained for many tasks and capabilities unrelated to translation. Thus, they are heavily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Liu O. Martin , Lucas Bandarkar , Nanyun Peng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently achieved remarkable progress by leveraging Reinforcement Learning and extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) techniques. However, the challenge of performing efficient language reasoning--especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhong-Zhi Li , Xiao Liang , Zihao Tang , Lei Ji , Peijie Wang , Haotian Xu , Xing W , Haizhen Huang , Weiwei Deng , Yeyun Gong , Zhijiang Guo , Xiao Liu , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a fixture in modern machine learning. Correspondingly, significant resources are allocated towards research that aims to further advance this technology, typically resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Pratyusha Sharma , Jordan T. Ash , Dipendra Misra

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ji Ma , Wei Suo , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Multilingual machine translation models often outperform traditional bilingual models by leveraging translation knowledge transfer. Recent advancements have led to these models supporting hundreds of languages and achieving state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Pedram Rostami , Mohammad Javad Dousti

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but their massive scale poses significant challenges for practical deployment. Structured pruning offers a promising solution by removing entire dimensions or layers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jimyung Hong , Jaehyung Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, but their substantial size often demands significant computational resources. To reduce resource consumption and accelerate inference, it is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yiran Zhao , Shengyang Zhou , Zijian Wu , Tongyan Hu , Yuhui Xu , Rengan Dou , Kenji Kawaguchi , Shafiq Joty , Junnan Li , Michael Qizhe Shieh

Although large-scale self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM have achieved state-of-the-art performance in speech processing, their significant size impedes deployment on resource-constrained devices. While structured pruning is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Junyi Peng , Lin Zhang , Jiangyu Han , Oldřich Plchot , Johan Rohdin , Themos Stafylakis , Shuai Wang , Jan Černocký

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

Large language models have steadily increased in size to achieve improved performance; however, this growth has also led to greater inference time and computational demands. Consequently, there is rising interest in model size reduction…

Transformer-based language models are applied to a wide range of applications in natural language processing. However, they are inefficient and difficult to deploy. In recent years, many compression algorithms have been proposed to increase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ofir Zafrir , Ariel Larey , Guy Boudoukh , Haihao Shen , Moshe Wasserblat

Multilingual language model (LM) have become a powerful tool in NLP especially for non-English languages. Nevertheless, model parameters of multilingual LMs remain large due to the larger embedding matrix of the vocabulary covering tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Asahi Ushio , Yi Zhou , Jose Camacho-Collados

Large language models (LLMs) enable unparalleled few- and zero-shot reasoning capabilities but at a high computational footprint. A growing assortment of methods for compression promises to reduce the computational burden of LLMs in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ananya Harsh Jha , Tom Sherborne , Evan Pete Walsh , Dirk Groeneveld , Emma Strubell , Iz Beltagy

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 revolutionized many areas of artificial intelligence (AI), but their substantial resource requirements limit their deployment on mobile and edge devices. This survey paper provides a comprehensive overview…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sanjay Surendranath Girija , Shashank Kapoor , Lakshit Arora , Dipen Pradhan , Aman Raj , Ankit Shetgaonkar

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

Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Self-supervised pre-trained models such as Wav2vec2, Hubert, and WavLM have been shown to significantly improve many speech tasks. However, their large memory and strong computational requirements hinder their industrial applicability.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Haoyu Wang , Siyuan Wang , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Hongbin Suo , Yulong Wan

Pruning is a widely used technique to reduce the size and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), but it often causes performance degradation. To mitigate this, existing restoration methods typically employ parameter-efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zijian Feng , Hanzhang Zhou , Zixiao Zhu , Tianjiao Li , Jia Jim Deryl Chua , Lee Onn Mak , Gee Wah Ng , Kezhi Mao