arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31
WIDE: Boosting Adaptive LLM Inference via Token-level Dynamic Width Pruning
arXiv:2607. 28418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pruning is a promising approach for improving the efficiency of LLMs.
LEAP: Learnable End-to-End Adaptive Pruning of Large Language Models
arXiv:2605. 17289v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unstructured sparsity is now natively accelerated by recent GPU kernels and dataflow hardware, shifting the bottleneck from inference execution to the pruning algorithm.
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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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10
Prune Once: Retraining-Free Task-Agnostic Pruning for Vision-Language Models
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21
NIRVANA: Structured Pruning Reimagined for Large Language Model Compression
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22
SHUFFLESPARSE: Learned Shuffles for Structured Sparse Networks
arXiv:2510. 14812v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured weight sparsity accelerates training and inference on modern GPUs, but it trails unstructured dynamic sparse training (DST) in accuracy especially at extreme sparsity.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
GPrune-LLM: Generalization-Aware Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
arXiv:2603. 13418v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured pruning is widely applied to compress large language models (LLMs), but its performance depends heavily on how neuron importance is estimated.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14
Prune, Update and Trim: Robust Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
arXiv:2605. 18331v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have experienced significant growth and development in recent years.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
On the Limits of Layer Pruning for Generative Reasoning in Large Language Models
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.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 26
PathSelect: Sequential Token Selection for Whole Slide Pathology
Gigapixel Whole-Slide Images (WSIs) present a fundamental computational bottleneck for vision-language models (VLMs) due to extreme sequence lengths. Existing approaches predominantly rely on spatial sampling or training-free pruning, which risk diluting weak but informative signals, leading to the loss of critical diagnostic evidence due to the spatially diffuse nature of pathological cues.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11
High-Layer Attention Pruning with Rescaling
arXiv:2507. 01900v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pruning is a highly effective approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing inference latency.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10
TENP: Trapezoidal Expert Neuron Pruning For Mixture-of-Experts
arXiv:2606. 09885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts large language models (LLMs) scale efficiently through sparse activation, yet their deployment is fundamentally constrained by the large static parameter footprint of experts.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11
Domain-Aware Pruning: Sparsity and Domain Generalization via Regularized Probabilistic Masking
arXiv:2608. 08624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain generalization (DG) and neural network pruning are conventionally treated as distinct objectives, targeting out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness and model efficiency, respectively.