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Leave it to the Specialist: Repair Sparse LLMs with Sparse Fine-Tuning via Sparsity Evolution

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arXiv:2505. 24037v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse large language models (LLMs) offer an attractive direction toward efficient deployment, but adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging.

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