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:2507. 01900v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pruning is a highly effective approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing inference latency.
By Songtao Liu, Peng Liu
arXiv:2605. 18331v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have experienced significant growth and development in recent years.
By Diego Coello de Portugal Mecke, Tom Hanika, Lars Schmidth-Thieme
arXiv:2602. 01997v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that layer pruning can effectively compress large language models (LLMs) while retaining strong performance on classification benchmarks, often with little or no finetuning.
By Safal Shrestha, Anubhav Shrestha, Minwu Kim, Aadim Nepal, Keith Ross
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. 14150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning promises a shortcut to strong small language models.
By Yufeng Xu, Taiming Lu, Kunjun Li, Jiachen Zhu, Mingjie Sun, Zhuang Liu
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:2511. 20849v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a new tokenizer for language models that minimizes the average tokens per character, thereby reducing the number of tokens needed to represent text during training and to generate text during inference.
By Dong Dong, Weijie Su
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:2510. 00192v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has become a widely used paradigm for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models, yet its representational capacity often lags behind full fine-tuning.
By Xin Yu, Cong Xie, Xunmei Liu, Tiantian Fan, Lingzhou Xue, Zhi Zhang
arXiv:2606. 19150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The remarkable success of Transformer-based models in natural language processing stems from architectural scaling, which leads to a large number of parameters and hinders deployment in resource-constrained environments.
By Yaniv Livertovsky, Shahar Somin, Gonen Singer
arXiv:2606. 25285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-Training Sparsity (PTS) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for compressing Large Language Models to facilitate efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices.
By Ke Xu, Jiaqi Wan, Wenhao Hu, Han Pu, Xiaoyun Wang