Calibration-Preserving Pruning: Compression as a Reliability Contract
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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.
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