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This paper explores pruning attention heads as a post-processing bias mitigation method for large language models (LLMs). Modern AI systems such as LLMs are expanding into sensitive social contexts where fairness concerns become especially…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) now exhibit remarkable reasoning capabilities through test-time compute scaling (TTS), with impressive performance across math and coding benchmarks. In parallel, research in model compression has developed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ocean Monjur , Shahriar Kabir Nahin , Anshuman Chhabra

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of tasks, hindering real-world deployment due to their massive size. Existing pruning methods (e.g., Wanda) tailored for LLMs rely heavily on manual design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Haidong Kang , Lihong Lin , Enneng Yang , Hongning Dai , Hao Wang

Recently, decomposing complex problems into simple subtasks--a crucial part of human-like natural planning--to solve the given problem has significantly boosted the performance of large language models (LLMs). However, leveraging such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Mihir Parmar , Palash Goyal , Xin Liu , Yiwen Song , Mingyang Ling , Chitta Baral , Hamid Palangi , Tomas Pfister

Large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention for their remarkable capabilities across various domains, whose vast parameter scales present challenges for practical deployment. Structured pruning is an effective method to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Gui Ling , Ziyang Wang , Yuliang Yan , Qingwen Liu

Pre-trained language models (PLM), for example BERT or RoBERTa, mark the state-of-the-art for natural language understanding task when fine-tuned on labeled data. However, their large size poses challenges in deploying them for inference in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aaron Klein , Jacek Golebiowski , Xingchen Ma , Valerio Perrone , Cedric Archambeau

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become pivotal in advancing the field of artificial intelligence, yet their immense sizes pose significant challenges for both fine-tuning and deployment. Current post-training pruning methods, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xudong Lu , Aojun Zhou , Yuhui Xu , Renrui Zhang , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Large language models (LLMs) are expensive to serve because model parameters, attention computation, and KV caches impose substantial memory and latency costs. We present GRASPrune, a structured pruning framework applied after pretraining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ziyang Wang , Jiangfeng Xiao , Chuan Xiao , Ruoxiang Li , Rui Mao , Jianbin Qin

Despite the remarkable performance of generative large language models (LLMs) on abstractive summarization, they face two significant challenges: their considerable size and tendency to hallucinate. Hallucinations are concerning because…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 George Chrysostomou , Zhixue Zhao , Miles Williams , Nikolaos Aletras

Pruning is a widely used technique to reduce the size and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), but it often causes performance degradation. To mitigate this, existing restoration methods typically employ parameter-efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zijian Feng , Hanzhang Zhou , Zixiao Zhu , Tianjiao Li , Jia Jim Deryl Chua , Lee Onn Mak , Gee Wah Ng , Kezhi Mao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing tasks successfully. Yet, their large size and high computational needs pose challenges for practical use, especially in resource-limited settings. Model compression…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Can Ma , Weiping Wang

Language models (LMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in NLP, yet adapting them efficiently and robustly to specific tasks remains challenging. As their scale and complexity grow, fine-tuning LMs on labelled data often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhengyan Shi

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

The extensive application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in generative coding tasks has raised concerns due to their high computational demands and energy consumption. Unlike previous structural pruning methods designed for classification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Xiangyu Zhang , Wei Cheng , Ke Liu , Xiang Chen , Terry Yue Zhuo , Taolue Chen

How does scaling the number of parameters in large language models (LLMs) affect their core capabilities? We study two natural scaling techniques -- weight pruning and simply training a smaller or larger model, which we refer to as dense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tian Jin , Nolan Clement , Xin Dong , Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Michael Carbin , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

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

Various Large Language Models~(LLMs) from the Generative Pretrained Transformer(GPT) family have achieved outstanding performances in a wide range of text generation tasks. However, the enormous model sizes have hindered their practical use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hang Shao , Bei Liu , Bo Xiao , Ke Zeng , Guanglu Wan , Yanmin Qian

Despite the remarkable capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) face deployment challenges due to their extensive size. Pruning methods drop a subset of weights to accelerate, but many of them require retraining, which is prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Peijie Dong , Lujun Li , Zhenheng Tang , Xiang Liu , Xinglin Pan , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior performance across various tasks by adhering to scaling laws, which significantly increase model size. However, the huge computation overhead during inference hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zekai Li , Jintu Zheng , Ji Liu , Han Liu , Haowei Zhu , Zeping Li , Fuwei Yang , Haiduo Huang , Jinzhang Peng , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum
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