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most citedDynamic Sparse No Training: Training-Free Fine-tuning for Sparse LLMs

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19 papers

math.CO2026

Coefficientwise Extremality and Rigidity for Independent Sets in Bipartite Graph Covers

Yusuke Watanabe

Let be a finite bipartite graph and let be an -fold cover. We compare independent sets of with those of the trivial cover, consisting of di…

cs.LG2026

PRQuant: Permutation Residual Quantization for Low-Overhead Inference

Peiran Wang, Anqi Wang, Jiaying Zhao +10

Low-bit quantization of linear layers is often dominated by a small number of outlier channels. Existing smoothing, rotation, and residual-based methods can mitigate this issue, bu…

cs.LG2026

MXAttention: Data-Free Optimal Scaling and Pre-Normalization Quantization for MXFP4 Attention

Jianlin Yu, Jing Lin, Linghui Kong +13

The quadratic cost of attention is a major bottleneck in diffusion-based video generation models. MXFP4 attention provides a promising path toward efficient inference, but direct M…

cs.AR2026

Kaleido: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Video Diffusion Transformers by Exploiting Latent Space Correlations

Wenxuan Miao, Haosong Liu, Weiming Hu +9

Video diffusion transformers (vDiTs) generate high quality video but introduce extremely high compute cost due to the long diffusion timesteps and self attention computation. As di…

cs.LG2026

BiSCo-LLM: Lookup-Free Binary Spherical Coding for Extreme Low-Bit Large Language Model Compression

Yuantian Shao, Peisong Wang, Zhilei Liu +6

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly constrained by memory capacity, weight bandwidth, and checkpoint storage during deployment. Existing low-bit compression methods mainl…

cs.LG2026

StreamKL: Fast and Memory-Efficient KL Divergence for Boosting Attention Distillation

Guangda Liu, Yiquan Wang, Chengwei Li +6

Attention distillation, which trains one attention distribution to match another by minimizing their Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, is widely used in knowledge distillation, mod…

cs.CV2025

RainFusion2.0: Temporal-Spatial Awareness and Hardware-Efficient Block-wise Sparse Attention

Aiyue Chen, Yaofu Liu, Junjian Huang +6

In video and image generation tasks, Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models incur extremely high computational costs due to attention mechanisms, which limits their practical applicati…

cs.LG2025

DartQuant: Efficient Rotational Distribution Calibration for LLM Quantization

Yuantian Shao, Yuanteng Chen, Peisong Wang +5

Quantization plays a crucial role in accelerating the inference of large-scale models, and rotational matrices have been shown to effectively improve quantization performance by sm…

cs.AR2025

Timeripple: Accelerating vDiTs by Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Correlations in Latent Space

Wenxuan Miao, Yulin Sun, Aiyue Chen +7

The recent surge in video generation has shown the growing demand for high-quality video synthesis using large vision models. Existing video generation models are predominantly bas…

cs.LG2025

Motivating Next-Gen Accelerators with Flexible (N:M) Activation Sparsity via Benchmarking Lightweight Post-Training Sparsification Approaches

Shirin Alanova, Kristina Kazistova, Ekaterina Galaeva +7

The demand for efficient large language model (LLM) inference has intensified the focus on sparsification techniques. While semi-structured (N:M) pruning is well-established for we…

cs.CV2025

Compact Attention: Exploiting Structured Spatio-Temporal Sparsity for Fast Video Generation

Qirui Li, Guangcong Zheng, Qi Zhao +4

The computational demands of self-attention mechanisms pose a critical challenge for transformer-based video generation, particularly in synthesizing ultra-long sequences. Current…

cs.LG2025

Amber Pruner: Leveraging N:M Activation Sparsity for Efficient Prefill in Large Language Models

Tai An, Ruwu Cai, Yanzhe Zhang +6

In the era of large language models (LLMs), N:M sparsity has emerged as a structured compression technique critical for accelerating inference. While prior work has primarily focus…

cs.CV2025

RainFusion: Adaptive Video Generation Acceleration via Multi-Dimensional Visual Redundancy

Aiyue Chen, Bin Dong, Jingru Li +4

Video generation using diffusion models is highly computationally intensive, with 3D attention in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models accounting for over 80\% of the total computati…

cs.CV2025

Astraea: A Token-wise Acceleration Framework for Video Diffusion Transformers

Haosong Liu, Yuge Cheng, Wenxuan Miao +8

Video diffusion transformers (vDiTs) have made tremendous progress in text-to-video generation, but their high compute demands pose a major challenge for practical deployment. Whil…

cs.LG2025

FreeKV: Boosting KV Cache Retrieval for Efficient LLM Inference

Guangda Liu, Chengwei Li, Zhenyu Ning +5

Large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed with rapidly expanding context windows to support increasingly demanding applications. However, long contexts pose significant depl…

cs.LG2025

Dynamic Low-Rank Sparse Adaptation for Large Language Models

Weizhong Huang, Yuxin Zhang, Xiawu Zheng +4

Despite the efficacy of network sparsity in alleviating the deployment strain of Large Language Models (LLMs), it endures significant performance degradation. Applying Low-Rank Ada…

cs.LG2025

KVTuner: Sensitivity-Aware Layer-Wise Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization for Efficient and Nearly Lossless LLM Inference

Xing Li, Zeyu Xing, Yiming Li +6

KV cache quantization can improve Large Language Models (LLMs) inference throughput and latency in long contexts and large batch-size scenarios while preserving LLMs effectiveness.…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

RazorAttention: Efficient KV Cache Compression Through Retrieval Heads

Hanlin Tang, Yang Lin, Jing Lin +4

The memory and computational demands of Key-Value (KV) cache present significant challenges for deploying long-context language models. Previous approaches attempt to mitigate this…

cs.AI2023★ 5 cited

Dynamic Sparse No Training: Training-Free Fine-tuning for Sparse LLMs

Yuxin Zhang, Lirui Zhao, Mingbao Lin +6

The ever-increasing large language models (LLMs), though opening a potential path for the upcoming artificial general intelligence, sadly drops a daunting obstacle on the way towar…