3 papers
cs.LG2026
Small LLMs: Pruning vs. Training from Scratch
Yufeng Xu, Taiming Lu, Kunjun Li +3
Pruning promises a shortcut to strong small language models. In this work, we examine this promise by pruning Llama-3.1-8B at pruning ratios of 0.5--0.8 with six methods spanning d…
cs.CL2026
Compressed Sensing for Capability Localization in Large Language Models
Anna Bair, Yixuan Even Xu, Mingjie Sun +1
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a wide range of capabilities, including mathematical reasoning, code generation, and linguistic behaviors. We show that Transformer architectur…
cs.CL2025
Bi-Mamba: Towards Accurate 1-Bit State Space Models
Shengkun Tang, Liqun Ma, Haonan Li +2
The typical Selective State-Space Model (SSM) used in Mamba addresses several limitations of Transformers, such as the quadratic computational complexity with respect to sequence l…