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TriSP introduces a novel pruning metric that integrates weight magnitude, activation norms, and gradient sensitivity to optimize large language model efficiency. By combining adaptive budget allocation with LoRA recovery, the method significantly boosts inference throughput while maintaining high accuracy on standard hardware. This research directly addresses deployment constraints for LLMs through advanced machine learning techniques rather than incidental applications of AI.
TriSP: Tri-Signal Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
arXiv:2607.22587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks but their deployment is constrained by the memory and compute cost of their parameters. Structured pruning addresses this by removing entire structures such as attention heads and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neurons to produce smaller dense models that run efficiently on standard hardware. However, existing methods rely on either gradient-based importance estimation, which is memory-prohibitive, or activation-based statistical proxies, which do not directly measure the effect of removal on the loss. Furthermore, the interaction between the importance criterion and the post-pruning recovery strategy has not been systematically studied. We propose TriSP (Tri-Signal Structured Pruning), an importance metric that combines weight magnitude scaled by activation norm with first-order gradient sensitivity via a geometric mean, producing a channel-level score that captures both structural and loss-sensitivity signals. Combined with adaptive per-layer budget allocation and low-rank adaptation (LoRA) recovery, TriSP achieves the lowest perplexity and highest zero-shot accuracy across all tested configurations, reaching 6.80 WikiText-2 perplexity at 20% pruning on LLaMA-7B. Inference throughput improves by 82% at 50% pruning, while still maintaining competitive performance.
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks but their deployment is constrained by the memory and compute cost of their parameters. Structured pruning addresses this by removing entire structures such as attention heads and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neurons to produce smaller dense models that run efficiently on standard hardware. However, existing methods rely on either gradient-based importance estimation, which is memory-prohibitive, or activation-based statistical proxies, which do not directly measure the effect of removal on the loss. Furthermore, the interaction between the importance criterion and the post-pruning recovery strategy has not been systematically studied. We propose TriSP (Tri-Signal Structured Pruning), an importance metric that combines weight magnitude scaled by activation norm with first-order gradient sensitivity via a geometric mean, producing a channel-level score that captures both structural and loss-sensitivity signals. Combined with adaptive per-layer budget allocation and low-rank adaptation (LoRA) recovery, TriSP achieves the lowest perplexity and highest zero-shot accuracy across all tested configurations, reaching 6.80 WikiText-2 perplexity at 20% pruning on LLaMA-7B. Inference throughput improves by 82% at 50% pruning, while still maintaining competitive performance.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2607.22587 [cs.AI]
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