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Communication-efficient distributed training algorithms have received considerable interest recently due to their benefits for training Large Language Models (LLMs) in bandwidth-constrained settings, such as across datacenters and over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Amir Sarfi , Benjamin Thérien , Joel Lidin , Eugene Belilovsky

Pre-trained large-scale language models have increasingly demonstrated high accuracy on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the limited weight storage and computational speed on hardware platforms have impeded the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Bingbing Li , Zhenglun Kong , Tianyun Zhang , Ji Li , Zhengang Li , Hang Liu , Caiwen Ding

Understanding the internal representations of large language models is crucial for ensuring their reliability and safety, with sparse autoencoders (SAEs) emerging as a promising interpretability approach. However, current SAE training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 T. Ed Li , Junyu Ren

This work suggests fundamentally rethinking the current practice of pruning large language models (LLMs). The way it is done is by divide and conquer: split the model into submodels, sequentially prune them, and reconstruct predictions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Sungbin Shin , Wonpyo Park , Jaeho Lee , Namhoon Lee

Training data compositions for Large Language Models (LLMs) can significantly affect their downstream performance. However, a thorough data ablation study exploring large sets of candidate data mixtures is typically prohibitively expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Clara Na , Ian Magnusson , Ananya Harsh Jha , Tom Sherborne , Emma Strubell , Jesse Dodge , Pradeep Dasigi

Large Language Models (LLMs) face the "knowledge cutoff" challenge, where their frozen parametric memory prevents direct internalization of new information. While Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is commonly used to update model knowledge, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pingzhi Tang , Yiding Wang , Muhan Zhang

This paper addresses the topic of sparsifying deep neural networks (DNN's). While DNN's are powerful models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on a large number of tasks, the large number of model parameters poses serious storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Igor Fedorov , Bhaskar D. Rao

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the capabilities of artificial intelligence across various domains. However, their massive scale and high computational costs render them unsuitable for direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Miao Rang , Zhenni Bi , Hang Zhou , Hanting Chen , An Xiao , Tianyu Guo , Kai Han , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang

The pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm has contributed to a number of breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Instead of directly training on a downstream task, language models are first pre-trained on large datasets with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Vithursan Thangarasa , Abhay Gupta , William Marshall , Tianda Li , Kevin Leong , Dennis DeCoste , Sean Lie , Shreyas Saxena

Large language models(LLMs) containing tens of billions of parameters (or even more) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various NLP tasks. However, substantial model size poses challenges to training, inference, and deployment so…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yupeng Ji , Yibo Cao , Jiucai Liu

Large language models (LLMs) based on transformer are witnessing a notable trend of size expansion, which brings considerable costs to both model training and inference. However, existing methods such as model quantization, knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yifei Yang , Zouying Cao , Hai Zhao

Pruning eliminates unnecessary parameters in neural networks; it offers a promising solution to the growing computational demands of large language models (LLMs). While many focus on post-training pruning, sparse pre-training--which…

N:M structured pruning is essential for large language models (LLMs) because it can remove less important network weights and reduce the memory and computation requirements. Existing pruning methods mainly focus on designing metrics to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Chi Xu , Gefei Zhang , Yantong Zhu , Luca Benini , Guosheng Hu , Yawei Li , Zhihong Zhang

Unstructured pruning reduces the memory footprint in deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, researchers proposed different types of structural pruning intending to reduce also the computation complexity. In this work, we first suggest a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Itay Hubara , Brian Chmiel , Moshe Island , Ron Banner , Seffi Naor , Daniel Soudry

In order to achieve high accuracy for machine learning (ML) applications, it is essential to employ models with a large number of parameters. Certain applications, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), however, require real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Kai Zhen , Hieu Duy Nguyen , Feng-Ju Chang , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Ariya Rastrow , .

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing tasks, including language modeling, understanding, and generation. However, the increased memory and computational costs associated with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shangqian Gao , Chi-Heng Lin , Ting Hua , Tang Zheng , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Yen-Chang Hsu

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

The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP) has created a critical need for techniques that enable efficient deployment on memory-constrained devices without compromising performance. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 James Seale Smith , Chi-Heng Lin , Shikhar Tuli , Haris Jeelani , Shangqian Gao , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Yen-Chang Hsu

With the rapid development of natural language processing technology, large-scale language models (LLM) have achieved remarkable results in a variety of tasks. However, how to effectively train these huge models and improve their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Jiajing Chen , Bingying Liu , Xiaoxuan Liao , Jia Gao , Hongye Zheng , Yue Li

As large language models (LLMs) are widely applied across various fields, model compression has become increasingly crucial for reducing costs and improving inference efficiency. Post-training pruning is a promising method that does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yixin Ji , Yang Xiang , Juntao Li , Qingrong Xia , Ping Li , Xinyu Duan , Zhefeng Wang , Min Zhang