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most citedOSSCAR: One-Shot Structured Pruning in Vision and Language Models with Combinatorial Optimization

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cs.CR2026

Defenses at Odds: Measuring and Explaining Defense Conflicts in Large Language Models

Xiangtao Meng, Wenyu Chen, Chuanchao Zang +5

Large language models (LLMs) may require additional defenses after deployment as risks and governance requirements evolve. Subsequent defenses can interact with earlier defenses, r…

cs.LG2026

ADMM-Q: An Improved Hessian-based Weight Quantizer for Post-Training Quantization of Large Language Models

Ryan Lucas, Mehdi Makni, Xiang Meng +2

Quantization is an effective strategy to reduce the storage and computation footprint of large language models (LLMs). Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a leading approach for co…

cs.LG2026

3BASiL: An Algorithmic Framework for Sparse plus Low-Rank Compression of LLMs

Mehdi Makni, Xiang Meng, Rahul Mazumder

Sparse plus Low-Rank decomposition of Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising direction in model compression, aiming to decompose pre-t…

math.OC2026

A GPU-accelerated Nonlinear Branch-and-Bound Framework for Sparse Linear Models

Ryan Lucas, Xiang Meng, Rahul Mazumder

We study exact sparse linear regression with an penalty and develop a branch-and-bound (BnB) algorithm explicitly designed for GPU execution. Starting from a perspe…

cs.LG2025

TSENOR: Highly-Efficient Algorithm for Finding Transposable N:M Sparse Masks

Xiang Meng, Mehdi Makni, Rahul Mazumder

Network pruning reduces the computational requirements of large neural networks, with N:M sparsity -- retaining only N out of every M consecutive weights -- offering a compelling b…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

ALPS: Improved Optimization for Highly Sparse One-Shot Pruning for Large Language Models

Xiang Meng, Kayhan Behdin, Haoyue Wang +1

The impressive performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various natural language processing tasks comes at the cost of vast computational resources and storage requiremen…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

FALCON: FLOP-Aware Combinatorial Optimization for Neural Network Pruning

Xiang Meng, Wenyu Chen, Riade Benbaki +1

The increasing computational demands of modern neural networks present deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices. Network pruning offers a solution to reduce model size…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

OSSCAR: One-Shot Structured Pruning in Vision and Language Models with Combinatorial Optimization

Xiang Meng, Shibal Ibrahim, Kayhan Behdin +3

Structured pruning is a promising approach for reducing the inference costs of large vision and language models. By removing carefully chosen structures, e.g., neurons or attention…