arXiv AI

Squeeze-Release: Iterative Pruning with Exact Structural Minimization

arXiv:2606. 14346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unstructured pruning produces sparse weight tensors, but the standard implementation keeps tensor shapes unchanged so the deployed model is no smaller than before pruning.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Ghosted Layers: Unconstrained Activation Alignment for Recovering Layer-Pruned LLMs

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