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Abstract - Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Power Transformation and Sign-Preserving Score Aggregation with Adaptive Feature Retention
This paper proposes an improved structured pruning method for large language models (LLMs) that addresses key challenges in adapting Adaptive Feature Retention (AFR), an unstructured pruning technique, to structured pruning. When applying AFR to structured pruning, three major problems arise: distribution mismatch between heterogeneous pruning scores, loss of sign information indicating optimization direction consistency, and influence of outliers. To address these issues, we propose a unified approach combining power transformation for nonlinear distribution alignment, sign-preserving score aggregation, and percentile-based outlier removal. Experiments on Llama-3-8B, Vicuna-v1.5-13B, and LLaVA-v1.5-13B demonstrate that our method maintains accuracy comparable to unstructured pruning while achieving practical inference speedup through structured pruning.
基于幂变换与保符号分数聚合及自适应特征保留的结构化大语言模型剪枝方法 /
Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Power Transformation and Sign-Preserving Score Aggregation with Adaptive Feature Retention
1️⃣ 一句话总结
本文提出一种改进的结构化剪枝方法,通过幂变换统一不同剪枝分数分布、保留符号信息聚合评分,并排除异常值干扰,从而将原本用于非结构化剪枝的自适应特征保留技术成功迁移到结构化剪枝中,在保持模型准确率的同时实现实际推理加速。