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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…

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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

Magnitude pruning is a widely used strategy for reducing model size in pure supervised learning; however, it is less effective in the transfer learning regime that has become standard for state-of-the-art natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Victor Sanh , Thomas Wolf , Alexander M. Rush

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

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved language understanding and generation capabilities. However, it is difficult to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices due to their high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Haotian Zheng , Jinke Ren , Yushan Sun , Ruichen Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Zhen Li , Dusit Niyato , Shuguang Cui , Yatong Han

In this paper, we propose a rotation-constrained compensation method to address the errors introduced by structured pruning of large language models (LLMs). LLMs are trained on massive datasets and accumulate rich semantic knowledge in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Shuichiro Haruta , Kazunori Matsumoto , Zhi Li , Yanan Wang , Mori Kurokawa

In the rapidly advancing field of Large Language Models (LLMs), effectively leveraging existing datasets during fine-tuning to maximize the model's potential is of paramount importance. This paper introduces P3, an adaptive framework aimed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yingxuan Yang , Huayi Wang , Muning Wen , Xiaoyun Mo , Qiuying Peng , Jun Wang , Weinan Zhang

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 pruning objective has recently extended beyond accuracy and sparsity to robustness in language models. Despite this, existing methods struggle to enhance robustness against adversarial attacks when continually increasing model sparsity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jianwei Li , Qi Lei , Wei Cheng , Dongkuan Xu

Weight pruning is a common technique for compressing large neural networks. We focus on the challenging post-training one-shot setting, where a pre-trained model is compressed without any retraining. Existing one-shot pruning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Gabriel Afriat , Xiang Meng , Shibal Ibrahim , Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder

Post-training model pruning is a promising solution, yet it faces a trade-off: simple heuristics that zero weights are fast but degrade accuracy, while principled joint optimization methods recover accuracy but are computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mohammad Mozaffari , Samuel Kushnir , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Amir Yazdanbakhsh

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in various tasks, such as text summarization, text question-answering, and etc. While their performance is impressive, the computational footprint due to their vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Peng Xu , Wenqi Shao , Mengzhao Chen , Shitao Tang , Kaipeng Zhang , Peng Gao , Fengwei An , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

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

With the rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs), the demand for memory and computational resources has grown significantly. Recent advances in LLM pruning aim to reduce the size and computational cost of these models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhendong Mi , Zhenglun Kong , Geng Yuan , Shaoyi Huang

Post-training pruning can substantially reduce LLM inference costs, but it often degrades quality unless the remaining weights are adapted. Since global retraining is expensive at LLM scale, recent work has largely focused on increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Moritz Wagner , Christophe Roux , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

The ever-growing ecosystem of LLMs has posed a challenge in selecting the most appropriate pre-trained model to fine-tune amidst a sea of options. Given constrained resources, fine-tuning all models and making selections afterward is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haowei Lin , Baizhou Huang , Haotian Ye , Qinyu Chen , Zihao Wang , Sujian Li , Jianzhu Ma , Xiaojun Wan , James Zou , Yitao Liang

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

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 (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various tasks but face deployment challenges due to their massive computational demands. While post-training pruning methods like SparseGPT and Wanda can effectively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qiao Xiao , Alan Ansell , Boqian Wu , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

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