arXiv:2607. 22564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Convolutional neural networks often contain redundant feature maps that increase storage and inference cost.
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arXiv:2606. 07615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks often contain redundant hidden units.
The paper introduces a structured post‑training pruning method for vision and language transformers called Damage‑Aware Bandit Pruning. It treats the selection of functional units (attention heads and MLP channel groups) as a multi‑armed bandit problem, using paired damage (masked loss minus base loss) as a reward to guide either UCB or Thompson Sampling policies. Experiments on a range of models (GPT‑2, OPT, Pythia, Qwen2.5, SmolLM2, ViT‑B/16, DeiT‑Tiny, Swin‑Tiny) show that the bandit approaches generally reduce degradation compared to budgeted‑greedy baselines, with statistically significant improvements in most comparisons.
arXiv:2606. 08574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data pruning (DP), as an oft-stated strategy to alleviate heavy training burdens, reduces the volume of training samples according to a well-defined pruning method while striving for near-lossless performance.
arXiv:2609.10346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) process hundreds or thousands of visual tokens per image, incurring prohibitive inference costs. While existin...
arXiv:2609.10311v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The lottery ticket hypothesis posits the existence of winning tickets: sparse subnetworks that, when trained in isolation from their original initial...
arXiv:2606. 12278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural network pruning reduces model size by removing less important parameters while aiming to preserve predictive performance.