arXiv AI
4d ago

Rethinking Calibration for High-Sparsity LLM Pruning: From Single Sources to Capability Coverage

The paper argues that post‑training pruning of large language models should use a calibration set that covers multiple capability domains rather than a single source. A balanced four‑way mixture of sources consistently outperforms any single source across sparsity levels, model scales, and held‑out benchmarks. When aligned corpora are unavailable, the IGSP method approximates this mixture using only the base model and an evaluation taxonomy, achieving significant gains over prior self‑generation approaches.

By Hu Xu, Zhaolong Xing, Congcong Liu, Jiaxing Wang, Zhida Jiang, Junshi Huang, Zhen Chen, Jianfeng Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

Replicable Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2608.23638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two analysts who calibrate the same predictive model on independent samples will deploy different prediction sets every time, because the calibration...

By Marios Papamichalis, Regina Ruane, Theofanis Papamichalis