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Pruning is a highly effective approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing inference latency. However, conventional training-free structured pruning methods often employ a heuristic metric that…

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The rapid increase in the size of large language models (LLMs) has significantly escalated their computational and memory demands, posing challenges for efficient deployment, especially on resource-constrained devices. Structured pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Hanyu Hu , Pengxiang Zhao , Ping Li , Yi Zheng , Zhefeng Wang , Xiaoming Yuan

Non-uniform structured network pruning methods can effectively reduce Large Language Model (LLM) size by eliminating redundant channels or layers, offering lower performance degradation than uniform strategies. However, existing non-uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zuxin Ma , Yunhe Cui , Yongbin Qin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become indispensable across various domains, but this comes at the cost of substantial computational and memory resources. Model pruning addresses this by removing redundant components from models. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hao Zhang , Zhibin Zhang , Guangxin Wu , He Chen , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

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…

Structured pruning is a promising hardware-friendly compression technique for large language models (LLMs), which is expected to be retraining-free to avoid the enormous retraining cost. This retraining-free paradigm involves (1) pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Pingjie Wang , Ziqing Fan , Shengchao Hu , Zhe Chen , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang

Recent work on pruning large language models (LLMs) has shown that one can eliminate a large number of parameters without compromising performance, making pruning a promising strategy to reduce LLM model size. Existing LLM pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Haiquan Lu , Yefan Zhou , Shiwei Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Michael W. Mahoney , Yaoqing Yang

Channel pruning is one of the major compression approaches for deep neural networks. While previous pruning methods have mostly focused on identifying unimportant channels, channel pruning is considered as a special case of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Xiangcheng Liu , Jian Cao , Hongyi Yao , Wenyu Sun , Yuan Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in language understanding and generation. However, such impressive capability typically comes with a substantial model size, which presents significant challenges in deployment…

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Deep learning drives a new wave in computing systems and triggers the automation of increasingly complex problems. In particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced cognitive tasks, often matching or even surpassing…

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) relies heavily on their substantial scale, which poses significant challenges during model deployment in terms of latency and memory consumption. Recently, numerous studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Weiyu Huang , Yuezhou Hu , Guohao Jian , Jun Zhu , Jianfei Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various language tasks, but their widespread deployment is impeded by their large size and high computational costs. Structural pruning is a prevailing technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Haihang Wu

Depth pruning improves the inference efficiency of large language models by removing Transformer blocks. Prior work typically treats layer redundancy as an inherent structural property of pretrained networks, emphasizing importance criteria…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Minkyu Kim , Vincent-Daniel Yun , Youngrae Kim , Suin Cho , Woosang Lim , Sunwoo Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the landscape of artificial intelligence, while their enormous size presents significant challenges in terms of computational costs. We introduce LoRAShear, a novel efficient approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Tianyi Chen , Tianyu Ding , Badal Yadav , Ilya Zharkov , Luming Liang

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

Model pruning is an effective approach for compressing large language models (LLMs). However, this process often leads to significant degradation of model capabilities. While post-training techniques such as instruction tuning are commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bowei He , Lihao Yin , Hui-Ling Zhen , Xiaokun Zhang , Mingxuan Yuan , Chen Ma

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

To remove redundant components of large language models (LLMs) without incurring significant computational costs, this work focuses on single-shot pruning without a retraining phase. We simplify the pruning process for Transformer-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jianwei Li , Yijun Dong , Qi Lei

Considering the hardware-friendly characteristics and broad applicability, structured pruning has emerged as an efficient solution to reduce the resource demands of large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained devices. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zihuai Xu , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Yunming Liao , Zhiwei Yao , Zuan Xie

Fine-tuning large pre-trained language models on downstream tasks has become an important paradigm in NLP. However, common practice fine-tunes all of the parameters in a pre-trained model, which becomes prohibitive when a large number of…

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