SparseForge achieves 57.27% zero-shot accuracy on LLaMA-2-7B at 2:4 sparsity using only 5B retraining tokens, beating the dense baseline and nearly matching a 40B-token SOTA method.
Cast: Continuous and differentiable semi-structured sparsity-aware training for large language models.ArXiv, abs/2509.25996
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SparseForge: Efficient Semi-Structured LLM Sparsification via Annealing of Hessian-Guided Soft-Mask
SparseForge achieves 57.27% zero-shot accuracy on LLaMA-2-7B at 2:4 sparsity using only 5B retraining tokens, beating the dense baseline and nearly matching a 40B-token SOTA method.