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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown immense potential in enhancing various aspects of our daily lives, from conversational AI to search and AI assistants. However, their growing capabilities come at the cost of extremely large model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yingyu Liang , Jiangxuan Long , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Yufa Zhou

Large language models(LLMs) have garnered significant attention and demonstrated impressive capabilities in a wide range of applications. However, due to their enormous computational costs, the deployment and application of LLMs are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jialong Guo , Xinghao Chen , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang

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…

Structured pruning of modern large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a way of decreasing their high computational needs. Width pruning reduces the size of projection weight matrices (e.g., by removing attention heads) while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Bo-Kyeong Kim , Geonmin Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Thibault Castells , Shinkook Choi , Junho Shin , Hyoung-Kyu Song

While Transformer-based models have shown impressive language modeling performance, the large computation cost is often prohibitive for practical use. Attention head pruning, which removes unnecessary attention heads in the multihead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Kyuhong Shim , Iksoo Choi , Wonyong Sung , Jungwook Choi

Overparametrized transformer networks are the state-of-the-art architecture for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, such models contain billions of parameters making large compute a necessity, while raising environmental concerns. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yang Zhang , Yawei Li , Xinpeng Wang , Qianli Shen , Barbara Plank , Bernd Bischl , Mina Rezaei , Kenji Kawaguchi

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains, their considerable scale necessitates substantial computational resources, posing significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yao Lu , Hao Cheng , Yujie Fang , Zeyu Wang , Jiaheng Wei , Dongwei Xu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang , Zhaowei Zhu

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

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Md Rafi ur Rashid , Vipul Gupta , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Gang Tan

Post-training pruning is an effective approach for reducing the size and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), but existing methods often face a trade-off between pruning quality and computational efficiency. Heuristic pruning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Peiqi Yu , Jinhao Wang , Xinyi Sui , Nam Ling , Wei Wang , Wei Jiang

We surely enjoy the larger the better models for their superior performance in the last couple of years when both the hardware and software support the birth of such extremely huge models. The applied fields include text mining and others.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hanjuan Huang , Hao-Jia Song , Hsing-Kuo Pao

Despite exceptional capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) still face deployment challenges due to their enormous size. Post-training structured pruning is a promising solution that prunes LLMs without the need for retraining, reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Weizhong Huang , Yuxin Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

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

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet their substantial model sizes often require substantial computational resources. To preserve computing resources and accelerate inference speed, it is crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yirao Zhao , Guizhen Chen , Kenji Kawaguchi , Lidong Bing , Wenxuan Zhang

Pruning provides a practical solution to reduce the resources required to run large language models (LLMs) to benefit from their effective capabilities as well as control their cost for training and inference. Research on LLM pruning often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuanhe Tian , Junjie Liu , Xican Yang , Haishan Ye , Yan Song

Despite the superior performance, it is challenging to deploy foundation models or large language models (LLMs) due to their massive parameters and computations. While pruning is a promising technique to reduce model size and accelerate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Pu Zhao , Fei Sun , Xuan Shen , Pinrui Yu , Zhenglun Kong , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

The popularity of LLaMA (Touvron et al., 2023a;b) and other recently emerged moderate-sized large language models (LLMs) highlights the potential of building smaller yet powerful LLMs. Regardless, the cost of training such models from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mengzhou Xia , Tianyu Gao , Zhiyuan Zeng , Danqi Chen

With the rapid growth in the size and complexity of large language models (LLMs), the costs associated with their training and inference have escalated significantly. Research indicates that certain layers in LLMs harbor substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Longguang Zhong , Fanqi Wan , Ruijun Chen , Xiaojun Quan , Liangzhi Li

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

Aligning general-purpose large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks often incurs significant training adjustment costs. Prior research has explored various avenues to enhance alignment efficiency, primarily through minimal-data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hao Chen , Haoze Li , Zhiqing Xiao , Lirong Gao , Qi Zhang , Xiaomeng Hu , Ningtao Wang , Xing Fu , Junbo Zhao
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