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Preserving LLM Capabilities through Calibration Data Curation: From Analysis to Optimization
Bowei He, Lihao Yin, Huiling Zhen +5
Post-training compression has been a widely employed approach to scale down large language model (LLM) and facilitate efficient inference. In various proposed compression methods,…
REG: A Regularization Optimizer for Robust Training Dynamics
Zehua Liu, Han Wu, Xiaojin Fu +4
Optimizers are crucial for the efficient training of Large Language Models (LLMs). While AdamW is the de facto standard, recent structure-aware optimizers like Muon have emerged, w…
A Survey of Optimization Modeling Meets LLMs: Progress and Future Directions
Ziyang Xiao, Jingrong Xie, Lilin Xu +15
By virtue of its great utility in solving real-world problems, optimization modeling has been widely employed for optimal decision-making across various sectors, but it requires su…
Activation-Guided Consensus Merging for Large Language Models
Yuxuan Yao, Shuqi Liu, Zehua Liu +6
Recent research has increasingly focused on reconciling the reasoning capabilities of System 2 with the efficiency of System 1. While existing training-based and prompt-based appro…
MoLAE: Mixture of Latent Experts for Parameter-Efficient Language Models
Zehua Liu, Han Wu, Ruifeng She +4
Mixture of Experts (MoE) has become a key architectural paradigm for efficiently scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) by selectively activating a subset of parameters for each inpu…
Unlocking Efficient Long-to-Short LLM Reasoning with Model Merging
Han Wu, Yuxuan Yao, Shuqi Liu +7
The transition from System 1 to System 2 reasoning in large language models (LLMs) has marked significant advancements in handling complex tasks through deliberate, iterative think…
Sens-Merging: Sensitivity-Guided Parameter Balancing for Merging Large Language Models
Shuqi Liu, Han Wu, Bowei He +3
Recent advances in large language models have led to numerous task-specialized fine-tuned variants, creating a need for efficient model merging techniques that preserve specialized…
LoRE-Merging: Exploring Low-Rank Estimation For Large Language Model Merging
Zehua Liu, Han Wu, Yuxuan Yao +4
While most current approaches rely on further training techniques, such as fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, to enhance model capacities, model merging stands out for its abil…
1bit-Merging: Dynamic Quantized Merging for Large Language Models
Shuqi Liu, Yuxuan Yao, Bowei He +5
Recent advances in large language models have led to specialized models excelling in specific domains, creating a need for efficient model merging techniques. While traditional mer…
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Pruning via Evolutionary Metric Search for Large Language Models
Shuqi Liu, Bowei He, Han Wu +1
Post-training pruning has emerged as a crucial optimization technique as large language models (LLMs) continue to grow rapidly. However, the significant variations in weight distri…