arXiv AI

LLM Compression by Block Removal with Constrained Binary Optimization

arXiv:2602. 00161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we formulate the compression of large language models (LLMs) by optimally deleting transformer blocks (``block removal'') as a constrained binary optimization (CBO) problem that can be mapped to a physical system (Ising glass), whose energies are a strong proxy for downstream model performance.

arXiv AI
Jun 12

MiniMax Sparse Attention

arXiv:2606. 13392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long-context capability is becoming indispensable for frontier LLMs: agentic workflows, repository-scale code reasoning, and persistent memory all require the model to jointly attend over hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens, yet the quadratic cost of softmax attention makes this untenable at deployment scale.

By Xunhao Lai, Weiqi Xu, Yufeng Yang, Qiaorui Chen, Yang Xu, Lunbin Zeng, Xiaolong Li, Haohai Sun, Haichao Zhu, Vito Zhang, Pengyu Zhao
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B: Compressing Hybrid MoE LLMs

arXiv:2607. 04371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, a compressed variant of Nemotron-3-Super optimized for interactive deployment.

By Akhiad Bercovich, Talor Abramovich, Daniel Afrimi, Shay Aharon, Nir Ailon, Vladimir Anisimov, Omer Ullman Argov, Maor Ashkenazi, Tomer Asida, Nave Assaf, Tomer Bar Natan, Alexander Bukharin, Grzegorz Chlebus, Marcin Chochowski, Eric Chung, Mohammad Dabbah, Carlo del Mundo, Ewa Dobrowolska, Ido Galil, Yaniv Galron, Amnon Geifman, Yonatan Geifman, Izik Golan, Alex Gronskiy, Tomasz Grzegorzek, Netanel Haber, Lior Kadoch, Grzegorz Karch, Tomer Keren, Abhinav Khattar, Amir Klein, Tugrul Konuk, Roi Koren, Daniel Korzekwa, Shaun Kotek, Konstantinos Krommydas, Itay Levy, Ofri Masad, Yoav Miron, Pavlo Molchanov, Shahar Mor, Zach Moshe, Saurav Muralidharan, Najeeb Nabwani, Besmira Nushi, Mostofa Patwary, Omri Puny, Johannes Rausch, Tomer Ronen, Sepehr Sameni, Itamar Schen, Elad Segal, Daniel Serebrenik, Ido Shahaf, Soumye Singhal, Daniil Sorokin, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Marta Stepniewska-Dziubinska, Ali Taghibakhshi, Nima Tajbakhsh, Oren Tropp, Dor Tzur, Anna Warno, Yi-Fu Wu, Michal Zawalski, Jiaqi Zeng, Yian Zhang, Ran Zilberstein, Amit Zuker, Ran El-Yaniv