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Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are engineered to be robust in contextual understanding and exhibit outstanding performance in various natural language processing tasks. However, their considerable size incurs significant computational…

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Due to the substantial scale of Large Language Models (LLMs), the direct application of conventional compression methodologies proves impractical. The computational demands associated with even minimal gradient updates present challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Arnav Chavan , Nahush Lele , Deepak Gupta

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable progress in natural language processing, yet their high computational and memory demands pose challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Although recent low-rank…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jiayi Tian , Ryan Solgi , Jinming Lu , Yifan Yang , Hai Li , Zheng Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks but face prohibitive computational and memory costs. Pruning offers a promising path by inducing sparsity while preserving architectural flexibility. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yizhuo Ding , Wanying Qu , Jiawei Geng , Wenqi Shao , Yanwei Fu

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

Federated fine-tuning enables privacy-preserving Large Language Model (LLM) adaptation, but its high memory cost limits participation from resource-constrained devices. We propose FedPruner, an innovative federated fine-tuning paradigm that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yebo Wu , Jingguang Li , Chunlin Tian , Zhijiang Guo , Li Li

Large Language Models are growing in size, and we expect them to continue to do so, as larger models train quicker. However, this increase in size will severely impact inference costs. Therefore model compression is important, to retain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Georgy Tyukin

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

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

Researchers and practitioners have recently reframed powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents, enabling them to automate complex tasks largely via the use of specialized functions. To facilitate the development of LLM agents, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Shaokun Zhang , Jieyu Zhang , Jiale Liu , Linxin Song , Chi Wang , Ranjay Krishna , Qingyun Wu

With the proliferation of large pre-trained language models (PLMs), fine-tuning all model parameters becomes increasingly inefficient, particularly when dealing with numerous downstream tasks that entail substantial training and storage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Nadav Benedek , Lior Wolf

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with downstream data is often considered time-consuming and expensive. Structured pruning methods are primarily employed to improve the inference efficiency of pre-trained models. Meanwhile, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Huang , Anda Cheng , Yinggui Wang

Layer pruning efficiently reduces Large Language Model (LLM) computational costs but often triggers sudden performance collapse. Existing representation-based analyses struggle to explain this mechanism. We propose studying pruning through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Boyu Shi , Chang Liu , ChuanBao Gao , Xu Yang , Xin Geng

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have achieved great success in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks under the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm. With large quantities of parameters, PLMs are computation-intensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Runxin Xu , Fuli Luo , Chengyu Wang , Baobao Chang , Jun Huang , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang

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

Large language models (LLMs) often develop learned mechanisms specialized to specific datasets, such as reliance on domain-specific correlations, which yield high-confidence predictions without generalizable reasoning. While beneficial in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ameen Ali , Shahar Katz , Lior Wolf , Ivan Titov

The ever-increasing size of large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges for deployment due to their heavy computational and memory requirements. Current model pruning techniques attempt to alleviate these issues by relying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Ayan Sengupta , Siddhant Chaudhary , Tanmoy Chakraborty

This paper presents Thanos, a novel weight-pruning algorithm designed to reduce the memory footprint and enhance the computational efficiency of large language models (LLMs) by removing redundant weights while maintaining accuracy. Thanos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivan Ilin , Peter Richtarik

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

Extensive efforts have been made to boost the performance in the domain of language models by introducing various attention-based transformers. However, the inclusion of linear layers with large dimensions contributes to significant…

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