Task-aware pruning improves OOD model performance by realigning distorted OOD layerwise norm and pairwise-distance profiles with the task-adapted geometry observed on ID inputs.
Compression of Neural Machine Translation Models via Pruning
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Neural Machine Translation (NMT), like many other deep learning domains, typically suffers from over-parameterization, resulting in large storage sizes. This paper examines three simple magnitude-based pruning schemes to compress NMT models, namely class-blind, class-uniform, and class-distribution, which differ in terms of how pruning thresholds are computed for the different classes of weights in the NMT architecture. We demonstrate the efficacy of weight pruning as a compression technique for a state-of-the-art NMT system. We show that an NMT model with over 200 million parameters can be pruned by 40% with very little performance loss as measured on the WMT'14 English-German translation task. This sheds light on the distribution of redundancy in the NMT architecture. Our main result is that with retraining, we can recover and even surpass the original performance with an 80%-pruned model.
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TALE selectively prunes task-detrimental layers in LLMs at inference time to match or exceed baseline performance with lower computational cost across multiple models and tasks.
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TAPIOCA: Why Task- Aware Pruning Improves OOD model Capability
Task-aware pruning improves OOD model performance by realigning distorted OOD layerwise norm and pairwise-distance profiles with the task-adapted geometry observed on ID inputs.