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In recent years, Deep Learning models have shown a great performance in complex optimization problems. They generally require large training datasets, which is a limitation in most practical cases. Transfer learning allows importing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Javier Poyatos , Daniel Molina , Aritz. D. Martinez , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

Existing pruning methods for large language models (LLMs) focus on achieving high compression rates while maintaining model performance. Although these methods have demonstrated satisfactory performance in handling a single user's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rongguang Ye , Ming Tang

Pruning has recently been widely adopted to reduce the parameter scale and improve the inference efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs). Mainstream pruning techniques often rely on uniform layerwise pruning strategies, which can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yuli Chen , Bo Cheng , Jiale Han , Yingying Zhang , Yingting Li , Shuhao Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as LLaMA and T5, have shown exceptional performance across various tasks through fine-tuning. Although low-rank adaption (LoRA) has emerged to cheaply fine-tune these LLMs on downstream tasks, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Mingyang Zhang , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen , Zhen Yang , Linlin Ou , Xinyi Yu , Bohan Zhuang

Large Language Models (LLMs) present significant computational and memory challenges due to their extensive size, making pruning essential for their efficient deployment. Existing one-shot pruning methods often apply uniform sparsity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Florentin Beck , William Rudman , Carsten Eickhoff

Reusing KV cache is essential for high efficiency of Large Language Model (LLM) inference systems. With more LLM users, the KV cache footprint can easily exceed GPU memory capacity, so prior work has proposed to either evict KV cache to…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in vision-language tasks, but their inference efficiency is severely limited by the exponential growth of visual tokens in complex scenarios such as high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yuhao Chen , Bin Shan , Xin Ye , Cheng Chen

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance across multimodal tasks, yet their ever-growing scale poses severe challenges for deployment and efficiency. Existing compression methods often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhaoqi Xu , Yingying Zhang , Jian Li , Jianwei Guo , Qiannan Zhu , Hua Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have played an important role in many fields due to their powerful capabilities.However, their massive number of parameters leads to high deployment requirements and incurs significant inference costs, which…

Despite the remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs), the massive size poses significant deployment challenges, particularly on resource-constrained hardware. While existing LLM compression methods focus on quantization, pruning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Song Guo , Jiahang Xu , Li Lyna Zhang , Mao Yang

The breakthrough performance of large language models (LLMs) comes with major computational footprints and high deployment costs. In this paper, we progress towards resolving this problem by proposing a novel structured compression approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Eldar Kurtic , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

The rapid growth of high-resolution scientific simulations and observation systems is generating massive spatiotemporal datasets, making efficient, error-bounded compression increasingly important. Meanwhile, decoder-only large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Guozhong Li , Muhannad Alhumaidi , Spiros Skiadopoulos , Panos Kalnis

Large language models (LLMs) deliver impressive results but face challenges from increasing model sizes and computational costs. Structured pruning reduces model size and speeds up inference but often causes uneven degradation across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hexuan Deng , Wenxiang Jiao , Xuebo Liu , Jing Li , Min Zhang , Zhaopeng Tu

While Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, their substantial computational and memory requirements pose deployment challenges on resource-constrained edge devices. Current parameter reduction techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yiran Huang , Lukas Thede , Massimiliano Mancini , Wenjia Xu , Zeynep Akata

Given the recent impressive accomplishments of language models (LMs) for code generation, we explore the use of LMs as adaptive mutation and crossover operators for an evolutionary neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm. While NAS still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Angelica Chen , David M. Dohan , David R. So

The rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) presents significant deployment challenges due to their massive computational and memory demands. While model compression, such as network pruning, offers potential solutions, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ziwei Li , Yuang Ma , Yi Kang

How can we compress language models without sacrificing accuracy? The number of compression algorithms for language models is rapidly growing to benefit from remarkable advances of recent language models without side effects due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Seungcheol Park , Jaehyeon Choi , Sojin Lee , U Kang

Structured weight pruning is a representative model compression technique of DNNs to reduce the storage and computation requirements and accelerate inference. An automatic hyperparameter determination process is necessary due to the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ning Liu , Xiaolong Ma , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Tang , Jieping Ye

We introduce Probe Pruning (PP), a novel framework for online, dynamic, structured pruning of Large Language Models (LLMs) applied in a batch-wise manner. PP leverages the insight that not all samples and tokens contribute equally to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Qi Le , Enmao Diao , Ziyan Wang , Xinran Wang , Jie Ding , Li Yang , Ali Anwar

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