arXiv:2607. 03057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth in the parameter scale of large language models (LLMs) has created a strong demand for efficient compression techniques.
By Zhuowen Liu, Longkun Hao, Shiyu Feng, Xiaowen Chang, Ruiqun Li, Changqun Li
arXiv:2605. 15491v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Layer pruning removes entire Transformer decoder blocks from large language models, but introduces a mismatch between the hidden state received by the next surviving layer and the distribution it was trained to process, leading to significant performance degradation.
By Vincent-Daniel Yun, Junhyuk Jo, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Sunwoo Lee
arXiv:2606. 03465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training compression is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) under tight resource constraints.
By Artur Zagitov, Alexander Miasnikov, Maxim Krutikov, Vladimir Aletov, Gleb Molodtsov, Nail Bashirov, Artem Tsedenov, Aleksandr Beznosikov
Post-training compression is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) under tight resource constraints. Tensor decompositions have emerged as a promising direction, offering compact parameterizations well suited to Transformer weight structures.
arXiv:2411. 09816v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance on many tasks, yet their sheer size hinders deployment on resource-constrained devices.
By Cem \"Uy\"uk, Mike Lasby, Mohamed Yassin, Utku Evci, Yani Ioannou
arXiv:2601. 22580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) hinges on the stable training of deep Transformer architectures.
By Chao Wang, Bei Li, Jiaqi Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Yuchun Fan, Linkun Lyu, Xin Chen, Jingang Wang, Tong Xiao, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai
arXiv:2606. 02559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training compression of Large Language Models (LLMs) removes entire architectural components, either deleting them or replacing them with fitted modules.
By Elia Cunegatti, Marcus Vukojevic, Erik Nielsen, Giovanni Iacca
arXiv:2604. 21254v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM architecture research generally aims to maximize model quality subject to fixed compute/latency budgets.
By Abbas Zeitoun, Lucas Torroba-Hennigen, Yoon Kim
arXiv:2607. 18284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To excel at their domain large language models are comprised of billions of parameters.
By Athanasios Ntovas, Alexandros Doumanoglou, Petros Drakoulis, Dimitris Zarpalas
arXiv:2606. 07098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present SigmaScale, a method for learning auxiliary scaling matrices $S$ to aid truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based Large Language Model (LLM) compression.
By Ernests Lavrinovics, Marco Letizia, Roy Janco, Shai Segal, Johannes Bjerva, Maurizio Pierini
arXiv:2509. 25136v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Activation-aware low-rank factorization techniques yield strong compression results but are generally confined to linear layers, while existing whitening-based theory typically makes an implicit full-rank assumption on activations.
By David Gonz\'alez-Mart\'inez
arXiv:2606. 15157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: KV cache compression is essential for reducing the memory cost of long-context large language model inference.
By Chao Fei, Panos Kalnis