arXiv:2601. 16991v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting large pre-trained language models to downstream tasks often entails fine-tuning millions of parameters or deploying costly dense weight updates, which hinders their use in resource-constrained environments.
By Longteng Zhang, Sen Wu, Shuai Hou, Zhengyu Qing, Zhuo Zheng, Danning Ke, Qihong Lin, Qiang Wang, Shaohuai Shi, Xiaowen Chu
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
arXiv:2607. 28418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pruning is a promising approach for improving the efficiency of LLMs.
By Haozhe Hu, Hao Wu, Peiran Yin, Chao Han, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv:2601. 21461v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern sparse language models typically achieve sparsity through Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers, which dynamically route tokens to dense MLP "experts.
By Albert Tseng, Christopher De Sa
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
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: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:2608. 12953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structured pruning is a promising approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), yet existing methods rely heavily on greedy heuristics that produce myopic decisions, and often fail to precisely meet target compression budgets.
By Palaash Goel, Ayan Sengupta, Akshay Nambi, Tanmoy Chakraborty
arXiv:2606. 09080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning has emerged as a dominant paradigm for accelerating large language model (LLM) inference, spanning a broad spectrum of methods that remove computation across tokens, layers, heads, dimensions, and attention patterns.
By Haozhe Hu, Hao Wu, Anhao Zhao, Longwei Ding, Peiran Yin, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv:2606. 01155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling laws for dense LLMs under infinite data are well explored, but how sparsity interacts with limited data is not.
By Boqian Wu, Qiao Xiao, Patrik Okanovic, Tomasz Sternal, Maurice van Keulen, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Elena Mocanu, Torsten Hoefler, Decebal Constantin Mocanu
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:2602. 02599v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context inference in large language models (LLMs) is bottlenecked by the memory and compute of the key-value (KV) cache.
By Jihao Xin, Tian Lyu, David Keyes, Hatem Ltaief, Marco Canini