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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…

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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…

Recent research has shown that pruning large-scale language models for inference is an effective approach to improving model efficiency, significantly reducing model weights with minimal impact on performance. Interestingly, pruning can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yiran Luo , Het Patel , Yu Fu , Dawon Ahn , Jia Chen , Yue Dong , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional reasoning abilities, enabling strong generalization across diverse tasks such as commonsense reasoning and instruction following. However, as LLMs scale, inference costs become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Benedikt Staffler , Frank Hutter , Aaron Klein

Large Language Models excel at natural language processing tasks, but their massive size leads to high computational and storage demands. Recent works have sought to reduce their model size through layer-wise structured pruning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fei Wang , Li Shen , Liang Ding , Chao Xue , Ye Liu , Changxing Ding

Structured pruning for large language models (LLMs) has garnered significant academic interest due to its ability to efficiently compress and accelerate LLMs by eliminating redundant weight groups at a coarse-grained granularity. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jun Liu , Zhenglun Kong , Pu Zhao , Changdi Yang , Hao Tang , Xuan Shen , Geng Yuan , Wei Niu , Wenbin Zhang , Xue Lin , Dong Huang , Yanzhi Wang

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 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

With the development of transformer-based large language models (LLMs), they have been applied to many fields due to their remarkable utility, but this comes at a considerable computational cost at deployment. Fortunately, some methods such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Harry Dong , Beidi Chen , Yuejie Chi

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in tackling a wide range of complex tasks. However, their huge computational and memory costs raise significant challenges in deploying these models on resource-constrained…

Iterative pruning is one of the most effective compression methods for pre-trained language models. We discovered that finding the optimal pruning decision is an equality-constrained 0-1 Integer Linear Programming problem. The solution to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Siyu Ren , Kenny Q. Zhu

Linear transformers have emerged as a subquadratic-time alternative to softmax attention and have garnered significant interest due to their fixed-size recurrent state that lowers inference cost. However, their original formulation suffers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Jean Mercat , Igor Vasiljevic , Sedrick Keh , Kushal Arora , Achal Dave , Adrien Gaidon , Thomas Kollar

The rapid advancement of large-language models (LLMs) has driven extensive research into parameter compression after training has been completed, yet compression during the training phase remains largely unexplored. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jun Wu , Jiangtao Wen , Yuxing Han

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

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable progress in natural language processing, yet their high computational and memory demands pose challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Although recent low-rank…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jiayi Tian , Ryan Solgi , Jinming Lu , Yifan Yang , Hai Li , Zheng Zhang

Structural pruning techniques are essential for deploying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) across various hardware platforms, from edge devices to cloud servers. However, current pruning methods typically determine optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhihan Zhang , Xiang Pan , Hongchen Wei , Zhenzhong Chen

Self-supervised speech representation learning (SSL) has shown to be effective in various downstream tasks, but SSL models are usually large and slow. Model compression techniques such as pruning aim to reduce the model size and computation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yifan Peng , Kwangyoun Kim , Felix Wu , Prashant Sridhar , Shinji Watanabe

Compressing and pruning large machine learning models has become a critical step towards their deployment in real-world applications. Standard pruning and compression techniques are typically designed without taking the structure of the…