English
Related papers

Related papers: SDMPrune: Self-Distillation MLP Pruning for Effici…

200 papers

Layer pruning has emerged as a potent approach to remove redundant layers in the pre-trained network on the purpose of reducing network size and improve computational efficiency. However, existing layer pruning methods mostly overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yuqi Li , Yao Lu , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Xin Yin , Yihao Chen , Jianping Gou , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across tasks but incur substantial computational costs due to their deep, multi-layered architectures. Layer pruning has emerged as a strategy to alleviate these inefficiencies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Anhao Zhao , Fanghua Ye , Yingqi Fan , Junlong Tong , Zhiwei Fei , Hui Su , Xiaoyu Shen

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved outstanding performance in natural language processing, but enormous model sizes and high computational costs limit their practical deployment. Structured pruning can effectively reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jun Kong , Xinge Ma , Jin Wang , Xuejie Zhang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns about inference costs, increasing the need for research into model compression. While knowledge distillation (KD) is a prominent method for this, research on KD for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Gyeongman Kim , Doohyuk Jang , Eunho Yang

Organizing large-scale patent corpora according to classification schemes is a core information management task that determines the accuracy and efficiency of prior art retrieval, technology knowledge discovery, and intellectual property…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yongmin Yoo , Xu Zhang , Longbing Cao

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 shown remarkable capabilities in language understanding and generation. However, such impressive capability typically comes with a substantial model size, which presents significant challenges in both the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

Large Language models (LLMs) are achieving state-of-the-art performance in many different downstream tasks. However, the increasing urgency of data privacy puts pressure on practitioners to train LLMs with Differential Privacy (DP) on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 James Flemings , Murali Annavaram

Autoregressive Transformers adopted in Large Language Models (LLMs) are hard to scale to long sequences. Despite several works trying to reduce their computational cost, most of LLMs still adopt attention layers between all pairs of tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Sotiris Anagnostidis , Dario Pavllo , Luca Biggio , Lorenzo Noci , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Large language models (LLMs) have proven to be highly effective across various natural language processing tasks. However, their large number of parameters poses significant challenges for practical deployment. Pruning, a technique aimed at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jiwon Song , Kyungseok Oh , Taesu Kim , Hyungjun Kim , Yulhwa Kim , Jae-Joon Kim

Large language models (LLMs) face significant deployment challenges due to their massive computational demands. % While pruning offers a promising compression solution, existing methods suffer from two critical limitations: (1) They neglect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lang Xiong , Ning Liu , Ao Ren , Yuheng Bai , Haining Fang , BinYan Zhang , Zhe Jiang , Yujuan Tan , Duo Liu

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved strong results in text generation. However, their multi-step sampling leads to slow inference, limiting practical use. To address this, we extend Inverse Distillation, a technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 David Li , Nikita Gushchin , Dmitry Abulkhanov , Eric Moulines , Ivan Oseledets , Maxim Panov , Alexander Korotin

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess outstanding capabilities in addressing various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the sheer size of these models poses challenges in terms of storage, training and inference due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shuzhou Yuan , Ercong Nie , Bolei Ma , Michael Färber

Autoprompting is the process of automatically selecting optimized prompts for language models, which is gaining popularity due to the rapid development of prompt engineering driven by extensive research in the field of large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ernest A. Dyagin , Nikita I. Kulin , Artur R. Khairullin , Viktor N. Zhuravlev , Alena N. Sitkina

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced in recent years, achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. However, this progress has come at the cost of increasingly large model sizes,…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant success across various NLP tasks. However, their massive computational costs limit their widespread use, particularly in real-time applications. Structured pruning offers an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shengkun Tang , Oliver Sieberling , Eldar Kurtic , Zhiqiang Shen , Dan Alistarh

Understanding and shaping the behaviour of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly important as applications become more powerful and more frequently adopted. This paper introduces a machine unlearning method specifically designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Nicholas Pochinkov , Nandi Schoots

Many organizations lack computational resources to fine-tune large language models (LLMs) on private (unshareable) data for better utility, while fine-tuning tiny language models (TinyLMs) alone performs poorly. To address this bottleneck,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Binh-Nguyen Nguyen , Khang Tran , NhatHai Phan , Issa Khalil

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has seen remarkable advancements with deep neural networks, such as Transformer and Conformer. However, these models typically have large model sizes and high inference costs, posing a challenge to deploy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Huiqiang Jiang , Li Lyna Zhang , Yuang Li , Yu Wu , Shijie Cao , Ting Cao , Yuqing Yang , Jinyu Li , Mao Yang , Lili Qiu

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