Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Power Transformation and Sign-Preserving Score Aggregation with Adaptive Feature Retention
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Title:Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Power Transformation and Sign-Preserving Score Aggregation with Adaptive Feature Retention
Abstract: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.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2607.08027 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2607.08027v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.08027
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From: Yasunori Ishii Mr [view email][v1] Thu, 9 Jul 2026 01:05:42 UTC (1,064 KB)
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