arXiv Machine Learning

Complementary Attention Head Pruning for Efficient Transformers

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.

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.

By Mengting Ai, Tianxin Wei, Sirui Chen, Jingrui He
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Capacity-Controlled Global Attention for Graph Transformers

arXiv:2604. 17324v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Global self-attention drives modern graph transformers, yet the softmax at its core imposes a structural constraint rarely examined directly: every attention row is non-negative and sums to one, so each per-head output is a mass-conserving convex combination of value vectors.

By Yang Liu, Dongxin Guo, Tom Zheng, Siu Ming Yiu, Liam Ning, Jikun Wu