Summary of Slimgpt: Layer-wise Structured Pruning For Large Language Models, by Gui Ling et al.
SlimGPT: Layer-wise Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
by Gui Ling, Ziyang Wang, Yuliang Yan, Qingwen Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a low-cost and fast structured pruning method for Large Language Models (LLMs) called SlimGPT, which balances model performance with efficiency. The approach, based on the Optimal Brain Surgeon framework, uses Batched Greedy Pruning to rapidly achieve near-optimal pruning results within one hour. Additionally, the paper explores limitations of layer-wise pruning and proposes Incremental Pruning Ratio, a non-uniform pruning strategy to reduce performance degradation. Experimental results on the LLaMA benchmark show that SlimGPT outperforms other methods and achieves state-of-the-art results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SlimGPT is a new way to make Large Language Models smaller and faster. It uses a special method called structured pruning to remove parts of the model that aren’t as important. This helps the model work better on devices with limited resources, like smartphones or computers with low memory. The team also figured out how to make layer-wise pruning more effective by adding some extra steps. They tested their approach on a big dataset and found that it worked really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Llama » Pruning
