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Mix-LN: Unleashing the Power of Deeper Layers by Combining Pre-LN and Post-LN
Pengxiang Li, Lu Yin, Shiwei Liu
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, yet recent findings reveal that their deeper layers often contribute minimally and can be pruned without affecting ov…
Condense, Don't Just Prune: Enhancing Efficiency and Performance in MoE Layer Pruning
Mingyu Cao, Gen Li, Jie Ji +6
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has garnered significant attention for its ability to scale up neural networks while utilizing the same or even fewer active parameters. However, MoE does…
AlphaPruning: Using Heavy-Tailed Self Regularization Theory for Improved Layer-wise Pruning of Large Language Models
Haiquan Lu, Yefan Zhou, Shiwei Liu +3
Recent work on pruning large language models (LLMs) has shown that one can eliminate a large number of parameters without compromising performance, making pruning a promising strat…
Full-Rank No More: Low-Rank Weight Training for Modern Speech Recognition Models
Adriana Fernandez-Lopez, Shiwei Liu, Lu Yin +2
This paper investigates the under-explored area of low-rank weight training for large-scale Conformer-based speech recognition models from scratch. Our study demonstrates the viabi…
Is C4 Dataset Optimal for Pruning? An Investigation of Calibration Data for LLM Pruning
Abhinav Bandari, Lu Yin, Cheng-Yu Hsieh +5
Network pruning has emerged as a potential solution to make LLMs cheaper to deploy. However, existing LLM pruning approaches universally rely on the C4 dataset as the calibration d…
Q-GaLore: Quantized GaLore with INT4 Projection and Layer-Adaptive Low-Rank Gradients
Zhenyu Zhang, Ajay Jaiswal, Lu Yin +4
Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is memory-intensive due to the large number of parameters and associated optimization states. GaLore, a recent method, reduces memory usage by…
From Low Rank Gradient Subspace Stabilization to Low-Rank Weights: Observations, Theories, and Applications
Ajay Jaiswal, Yifan Wang, Lu Yin +6
Large Language Models' (LLMs) weight matrices can often be expressed in low-rank form with potential to relax memory and compute resource requirements. Unlike prior efforts that fo…
Composable Interventions for Language Models
Arinbjorn Kolbeinsson, Kyle O'Brien, Tianjin Huang +8
Test-time interventions for language models can enhance factual accuracy, mitigate harmful outputs, and improve model efficiency without costly retraining. But despite a flood of n…
Dynamic Data Pruning for Automatic Speech Recognition
Qiao Xiao, Pingchuan Ma, Adriana Fernandez-Lopez +7
The recent success of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is largely attributed to the ever-growing amount of training data. However, this trend has made model training prohibitivel…
MSRS: Training Multimodal Speech Recognition Models from Scratch with Sparse Mask Optimization
Adriana Fernandez-Lopez, Honglie Chen, Pingchuan Ma +5
Pre-trained models have been a foundational approach in speech recognition, albeit with associated additional costs. In this study, we propose a regularization technique that facil…
Towards Efficient Pareto Set Approximation via Mixture of Experts Based Model Fusion
Anke Tang, Li Shen, Yong Luo +4
Solving multi-objective optimization problems for large deep neural networks is a challenging task due to the complexity of the loss landscape and the expensive computational cost…
Outlier-weighed Layerwise Sampling for LLM Fine-tuning
Pengxiang Li, Lu Yin, Xiaowei Gao +1
The rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various natural language processing tasks. However, the substantial size of LLMs presents significant cha…
FFN-SkipLLM: A Hidden Gem for Autoregressive Decoding with Adaptive Feed Forward Skipping
Ajay Jaiswal, Bodun Hu, Lu Yin +4
Autoregressive Large Language Models (e.g., LLaMa, GPTs) are omnipresent achieving remarkable success in language understanding and generation. However, such impressive capability…
Found in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts Better via Plug-and-Play Positional Encoding
Zhenyu Zhang, Runjin Chen, Shiwei Liu +5
This paper aims to overcome the "lost-in-the-middle" challenge of large language models (LLMs). While recent advancements have successfully enabled LLMs to perform stable language…