Summary of Magnitude Pruning Of Large Pretrained Transformer Models with a Mixture Gaussian Prior, by Mingxuan Zhang et al.
Magnitude Pruning of Large Pretrained Transformer Models with a Mixture Gaussian Prior
by Mingxuan Zhang, Yan Sun, Faming Liang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The research paper introduces a new magnitude-based pruning algorithm called Mixture Gaussian Prior Pruning (MGPP) that aims to retain the expressiveness of large transformer models while reducing their size. The algorithm employs a mixture Gaussian prior for regularization, pruning non-expressive weights under its guidance. This approach outperforms existing pruning methods, particularly in high sparsity settings, across various NLP tasks such as natural language understanding, question answering, and natural language generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way to make big AI models smaller without losing their power. The method, called MGPP, uses a special type of math to decide which parts of the model are not important and can be removed. This makes it faster and more efficient for real-world use. The researchers tested MGPP on many different tasks like understanding language, answering questions, and generating text. They found that MGPP works better than other methods, especially when a lot of parts of the model are removed. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Language understanding » Nlp » Pruning » Question answering » Regularization » Transformer
