arXiv Machine Learning

Calibration-Preserving Pruning: Compression as a Reliability Contract

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

Replicable Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2608.23638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two analysts who calibrate the same predictive model on independent samples will deploy different prediction sets every time, because the calibration...

By Marios Papamichalis, Regina Ruane, Theofanis Papamichalis
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Calibration Data Trade-offs Across Capability Dimensions: Why Multi-Source Mixing Matters for High-Sparsity LLM Pruning

arXiv:2606. 03328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training pruning compresses large language models to high sparsity using a small unlabelled calibration set, and recent work has concluded that the choice of calibration source has only modest impact on averaged post-pruning accuracy.

By Hu Xu, Zhaolong Xing, Congcong Liu, Jiaxing Wang, Zhida Jiang, Junshi Huang, Zhen Chen, Jianfeng Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

The Sparsity Whisperer

arXiv:2608. 06630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning reduces the inference cost of large language models, but existing criteria primarily preserve large activations or reconstruct layer outputs.

By Linghao Kong, Inimai Subramanian, Micah Adler, Dan Alistarh, Dan Gutfreund, Nir Shavit
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 10

Finding Sparse Subnetworks in One Training Cycle via Progressive Magnitude-Based Pruning

Neural network pruning reduces model size by removing less important parameters while aiming to preserve predictive performance. Although the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) shows that sparse subnetworks can match dense networks when trained from suitable initializations, its iterative pruning procedure requires multiple complete training cycles.