collaborators

5 papers

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.LG2025

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…

cs.AI2025

The Amazon Nova Family of Models: Technical Report and Model Card

Amazon AGI, Aaron Langford, Aayush Shah +783

We present Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance. Amazon Nova Pro is a highl…

cs.LG2025

QuZO: Quantized Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

Jiajun Zhou, Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen +6

Language Models (LLMs) are often quantized to lower precision to reduce the memory cost and latency in inference. However, quantization often degrades model performance, thus fine-…

cs.LG2025

MaZO: Masked Zeroth-Order Optimization for Multi-Task Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Zhen Zhang, Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen +4

Large language models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across diverse tasks, but their fine-tuning demands significant memory, posing challenges for resource-constrained…