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Modern large language models (LLMs) driven by scaling laws, achieve intelligence emergency in large model sizes. Recently, the increasing concerns about cloud costs, latency, and privacy make it an urgent requirement to develop compact edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xingrun Xing , Zheng Liu , Shitao Xiao , Boyan Gao , Yiming Liang , Wanpeng Zhang , Haokun Lin , Guoqi Li , Jiajun Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance but are challenging to deploy due to their high computational and storage demands. Pruning can reduce model size, yet existing methods assume public access to calibration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Guangji Bai , Yijiang Li , Zilinghan Li , Liang Zhao , Kibaek Kim

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

Iterative pruning is one of the most effective compression methods for pre-trained language models. We discovered that finding the optimal pruning decision is an equality-constrained 0-1 Integer Linear Programming problem. The solution to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Siyu Ren , Kenny Q. Zhu

The remarkable performance of large language models (LLMs) in various language tasks has attracted considerable attention. However, the ever-increasing size of these models presents growing challenges for deployment and inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jiayu Qin , Jianchao Tan , Kefeng Zhang , Xunliang Cai , Wei Wang

The established redundancy in visual tokens within large vision-language models allows pruning to effectively reduce their substantial computational demands. Previous methods typically employ heuristic layer-specific pruning strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hanshi Wang , Yuhao Xu , Zekun Xu , Jin Gao , Yufan Liu , Weiming Hu , Ke Wang , Zhipeng Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable proficiency across a wide array of NLP tasks. However, the escalation in model size also engenders substantial deployment costs. While few efforts have explored model pruning techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Nan Zhang , Yanchi Liu , Xujiang Zhao , Wei Cheng , Runxue Bao , Rui Zhang , Prasenjit Mitra , Haifeng Chen

The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP) has created a critical need for techniques that enable efficient deployment on memory-constrained devices without compromising performance. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 James Seale Smith , Chi-Heng Lin , Shikhar Tuli , Haris Jeelani , Shangqian Gao , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Yen-Chang Hsu

How can we accelerate large language models(LLMs) without sacrificing accuracy? The slow inference speed of LLMs hinders us to benefit from their remarkable performance in diverse applications. This is mainly because numerous sublayers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seungcheol Park , Sojin Lee , Jongjin Kim , Jinsik Lee , Hyunjik Jo , U Kang

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

Fine-tuning and inference with large Language Models (LM) are generally known to be expensive. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning over pretrained LMs reduces training memory by updating a small number of LM parameters but does not improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bowen Zhao , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Qingqing Cao

Neural Networks can be effectively compressed through pruning, significantly reducing storage and compute demands while maintaining predictive performance. Simple yet effective methods like magnitude pruning remove less important parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Max Zimmer , Megi Andoni , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

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

Layer pruning has emerged as a promising technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) while achieving acceleration proportional to the pruning ratio. In this work, we identify that removing any layer induces a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Xinrui Chen , Hongxing Zhang , Fanyi Zeng , Yongxian Wei , Yizhi Wang , Xitong Ling , Guanghao Li , Chun Yuan

Post-training pruning has emerged as a crucial optimization technique as large language models (LLMs) continue to grow rapidly. However, the significant variations in weight distributions across different LLMs make fixed pruning strategies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Shuqi Liu , Bowei He , Han Wu , Linqi Song

Autonomous tuning of particle accelerators is an active and challenging field of research with the goal of enabling novel accelerator technologies cutting-edge high-impact applications, such as physics discovery, cancer research and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jan Kaiser , Annika Eichler , Anne Lauscher

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

Modern deep neural network models are large and computationally intensive. One typical solution to this issue is model pruning. However, most current pruning algorithms depend on hand crafted rules or domain expertise. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Baopu Li , Yanwen Fan , Zhihong Pan , Gang Zhang

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

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into automated algorithm design has shown promising potential. A prevalent approach embeds LLMs within search routines to iteratively generate and refine candidate algorithms. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Fei Liu , Rui Zhang , Xi Lin , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang