5 papers
Activation-Informed Pareto-Guided Low-Rank Compression for Efficient LLM/VLM
Ryan Solgi, Parsa Madinei, Jiayi Tian +4
Large language models (LLM) and vision-language models (VLM) have achieved state-of-the-art performance, but they impose significant memory and computing challenges in deployment.…
SharpZO: Hybrid Sharpness-Aware Vision Language Model Prompt Tuning via Forward-Only Passes
Yifan Yang, Zhen Zhang, Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan +3
Fine-tuning vision language models (VLMs) has achieved remarkable performance across various downstream tasks; yet, it requires access to model gradients through backpropagation (B…
Saten: Sparse Augmented Tensor Networks for Post-Training Compression of Large Language Models
Ryan Solgi, Kai Zhen, Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan +4
The efficient implementation of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for deployment on resource-constrained devices. Low-rank tensor compression techniques, such as tensor-train…
Wanda++: Pruning Large Language Models via Regional Gradients
Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen, Bhavana Ganesh +11
Large Language Models (LLMs) pruning seeks to remove unimportant weights for inference speedup with minimal accuracy impact. However, existing methods often suffer from accuracy de…
SIFT-50M: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Instruction Fine-Tuning
Prabhat Pandey, Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan, K V Vijay Girish +4
We introduce SIFT (Speech Instruction Fine-Tuning), a 50M-example dataset designed for instruction fine-tuning and pre-training of speech-text large language models (LLMs). SIFT-50…