arXiv:2606. 03328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training pruning compresses large language models to high sparsity using a small unlabelled calibration set, and recent work has concluded that the choice of calibration source has only modest impact on averaged post-pruning accuracy.
By Hu Xu, Zhaolong Xing, Congcong Liu, Jiaxing Wang, Zhida Jiang, Junshi Huang, Zhen Chen, Jianfeng Xu
arXiv:2608. 12953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structured pruning is a promising approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), yet existing methods rely heavily on greedy heuristics that produce myopic decisions, and often fail to precisely meet target compression budgets.
By Palaash Goel, Ayan Sengupta, Akshay Nambi, Tanmoy Chakraborty
arXiv:2606. 02559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training compression of Large Language Models (LLMs) removes entire architectural components, either deleting them or replacing them with fitted modules.
By Elia Cunegatti, Marcus Vukojevic, Erik Nielsen, Giovanni Iacca
Structured pruning is a promising approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), yet existing methods rely heavily on greedy heuristics that produce myopic decisions, and often fail to precisely meet target compression budgets. We present SNIPER, a two-stage structured pruning framework that solves a knapsack optimization over coarse-granularity components to yield conditionally optimal parameter allocations with respect to fixed importance estimates, followed by a fine-grained pruning stage to meet strict budget constraints.
arXiv:2606. 03328v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Calibration data are often treated as a minor implementation detail in post-training LLM pruning because averaged evaluations suggest only modest effects.
By Hu Xu, Zhaolong Xing, Congcong Liu, Jiaxing Wang, Zhida Jiang, Junshi Huang, Zhen Chen, Jianfeng Xu
arXiv:2607. 03057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth in the parameter scale of large language models (LLMs) has created a strong demand for efficient compression techniques.
By Zhuowen Liu, Longkun Hao, Shiyu Feng, Xiaowen Chang, Ruiqun Li, Changqun Li