arXiv:2509. 14230v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While structured pruning presents a highly effective pathway for accelerating Large Language Model (LLM) inference, existing methods frequently suffer from significant performance degradation and demand computationally retraining to recover capabilities.
By Mengting Ai, Tianxin Wei, Sirui Chen, Jingrui He
arXiv:2608. 06901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable generalization across diverse multimodal tasks through large-scale pre-training, yet their rapidly increasing computational and memory requirements pose significant challenges for deployment in constrained environments.
By Minseok Kang, Hyunwoo Kim, Chanyoung Kim, Minwoo Kim, Jaekoo Lee, Dahuin Jung
arXiv:2607. 03784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While prior studies have successfully compressed vision Transformers (ViTs) through various pruning techniques, most have concentrated on width pruning to achieve significant reductions in model size.
By Zhenfeng Su, Kang Zhao, Han Bao, Tao Yuan, Zhongzhe Hu, Xianzhi Yu, Wenxuan Wang
arXiv:2607. 17568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structured pruning compresses large language models (LLMs) by removing whole computational units, such as attention heads and feed-forward (FFN) channel groups.
By Zhiren Gong, Zihao Zeng, Zijie Wang, Tiantong Wang, Chau Yuen, Wei Yang Bryan Lim
arXiv:2606. 01402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural network compression is commonly achieved by pruning parameters based on local importance scores, e.
By Ravi Dhiman, Andrea Passarella, Mirco Tribastone, Lorenzo Valerio
arXiv:2607. 22587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks but their deployment is constrained by the memory and compute cost of their parameters.
By Manel Kara laoua, Soumia Bouyahiaoui, Aicha Boutorh
arXiv:2508. 13836v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency.
By Miko{\l}aj Janusz, Tomasz Wojnar, Yawei Li, Luca Benini, Kamil Adamczewski
arXiv:2607. 11473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose TECO, a multi-dimensional pruning framework to collaboratively prune the three dimensions (depth, width, and resolution) of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for better execution efficiency on embedded hardware.
By Hao Kong, Di Liu, Xiangzhong Luo, Shuo Huai, Ravi Subramaniam, Christian Makaya, Qian Lin, Weichen Liu
arXiv:2504. 05349v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Network pruning is used to reduce inference latency and power consumption in large neural networks.
By Eugen Barbulescu, Antonio Alexoaie, Lucian Busoniu
arXiv:2603. 13418v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured pruning is widely applied to compress large language models (LLMs), but its performance depends heavily on how neuron importance is estimated.
By Xiaoyun Liu, Divya Saxena, Jiannong Cao, Yuqing Zhao, Yiying Dong, Penghui Ruan
arXiv:2602. 06127v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The high computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) motivate methods that reduce parameter count and accelerate inference.
By Bruno Lopes Yamamoto, Lucas Lauton de Alcantara, Victor Zacarias, Leandro Giusti Mugnaini, Keith Ando Ogawa, Lucas Pellicer, Rosimeire Pereira Costa, Edson Bollis, Anna Helena Reali Costa, Artur Jordao
arXiv:2606. 14346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unstructured pruning produces sparse weight tensors, but the standard implementation keeps tensor shapes unchanged so the deployed model is no smaller than before pruning.
By Roman Denkin, Ida Akerholm, Prashant Singh, Ida-Maria Sintorn