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Continual LLM Upcycling: A Predictor-Gated Bank-Wise Sparsity Training Recipe for Dense-to-Sparse LLMs

We study dense-to-sparse continual training as a way to construct channel-sparse large language models from dense checkpoints. Starting from a Qwen2.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 31

Prox: Training-Free FFN Activation Sparsity via Approximate Intermediate-Channel Salience in LLMs

arXiv:2607. 27591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feed-forward networks (FFNs) dominate memory traffic and computation in large language model (LLM) inference, making them a primary target for activation sparsification.

By Jinyi Liu, Wei Chen, Pengyu Chen, Xinyi Yuan, Minghe Bai, Guoquan Wu, Jun Wei

llms efficiency

arXiv AI

Jul 22

Beyond Single-Dimensional Compression: The Compound Sparsity Frontier of Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 18280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are often compressed through static parameter pruning or dynamic token-level computation, yet aggressive sparsification can trigger rapid performance degradation beyond an essential sparsity boundary.

By Chao Han, Haozhe Hu, Xiaoyu Shen

llms nlp efficiency benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 6

Recurrent Residual Quantization: A Progressive Multi-Precision Representation for LLMs

arXiv:2608. 04048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Serving large language models (LLMs) under diverse deployment constraints requires flexible trade-offs between accuracy, memory footprint, and throughput.

By Yu Luo, Bo Dong, Wenhua Cheng, Haihao Shen

llms efficiency

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 24

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2508. 15706v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication-efficient distributed training algorithms (e.

By Amir Sarfi, Benjamin Th\'erien, Joel Lidin, Eugene Belilovsky

llms efficiency

arXiv AI

Jun 4

Recover-LoRA for Aggressive Quantization: Reclaiming Accuracy in 2-Bit Language Models via Low-Rank Adaptation with Knowledge Distillation on Synthetic Data

arXiv:2606. 04238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aggressive weight quantization to 2-bit precision offers substantial throughput and memory gains for large language model (LLM) inference, but typically incurs severe accuracy degradation.

By Devleena Das, Rajeev Patwari, Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao

llms fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 21

LaCache: Exact Caching and Precision-Adaptive Inference for Diffusion Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 16339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based Large Language Models(DLLMs) enable parallel generation via Semi-Autoregressive (SAR) decoding in text generation.

By Xingru Chen, Zelang Liang, Yongjia Ma, Jiqing Zhan, Shuling Yang, Lian Wen, Kun Zhan

llms rag diffusion efficiency

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 3

QTALE: Quantization-Robust Token-Adaptive Layer Execution for LLMs

arXiv:2602. 10431v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demand substantial computational and memory resources, posing challenges for efficient deployment.

By Kanghyun Noh, Jinheon Choi, Yulhwa Kim

llms fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 2

Memory-Efficient LLM Training with Dynamic Sparsity: From Stability to Practical Scaling

arXiv:2606. 00888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) offers a promising paradigm for improving the training and inference efficiency of deep neural networks; however, we find that in large language model training, DST can suffer from optimization instability, manifested as loss spikes after topology updates.

By Qiao Xiao, Boqian Wu, Patrik Okanovic, Tomasz Sternal, Maurice van Keulen, Elena Mocanu, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Torsten Hoefler

llms efficiency

arXiv AI

Jun 9

Joint Structural Pruning and Mixed-Precision Quantization for LLM Compression

arXiv:2606. 07819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) deployment has become a critical concern in practical applications.

By Hoang-Loc La, Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Phuong Hoai Ha

llms efficiency benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 24

Scaling Interpretable Transformers with Parity Bottleneck Layers

arXiv:2607. 20652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are thought to exhibit the phenomenon of superposition, representing many more features than dimensions in their residual streams.

By Andrew Mack, Kraig Yuheng Tou, Mark Henry, Zhengxun Wu, Lauren Greenspan

llms efficiency safety

arXiv AI

Jun 3

Leave it to the Specialist: Repair Sparse LLMs with Sparse Fine-Tuning via Sparsity Evolution

arXiv:2505. 24037v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse large language models (LLMs) offer an attractive direction toward efficient deployment, but adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging.

By Qiao Xiao, Alan Ansell, Boqian Wu, Lu Yin, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Shiwei Liu, Decebal Constantin Mocanu

llms fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 28

cMoLLM at Scale: Horizontal Scaling Laws for Mixture-of-LLMs

arXiv:2607. 22577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling large language models (LLMs) has driven their success, yet dense Transformers couple capacity and computation: every parameter is activated for every token, making training and inference costs grow linearly with model size-a critical bottleneck as models approach trillion-parameter regimes.

By Xin Yang, Yemin Wang, Mingda Liu, Letian Li, Shuaishuai Cao, Zhengxiao He, Ryan Dong

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