Summary of Streamlining Redundant Layers to Compress Large Language Models, by Xiaodong Chen et al.
Streamlining Redundant Layers to Compress Large Language Models
by Xiaodong Chen, Yuxuan Hu, Jing Zhang, Yanling Wang, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces LLM-Streamline, a pioneering work on layer pruning for large language models (LLMs). The authors identify varying impacts of different layers on hidden states, enabling the removal of less important layers. LLM-Streamline consists of two parts: layer pruning, which removes consecutive layers based on target sparsity, and layer replacement, a novel module that trains a lightweight network to replace pruned layers. The paper also proposes a new metric called stability to address limitations of accuracy in evaluating model compression. Experiments show that LLM-Streamline outperforms state-of-the-art pruning methods in terms of performance and training efficiency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us make language models more efficient. It’s like cleaning up old, unused code from a computer program. The authors find that some parts of the model are not as important as others, so they create a way to remove those parts without affecting how well the model works. They also develop a new way to train a smaller model to replace the pruned parts and make sure it still performs well. This is important because language models need to be able to process lots of information quickly. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Model compression » Pruning
