Pruning the most attribution-prominent MLP neurons in a single layer, chosen via a 10-sample validation sweep, consistently improves multiple-choice accuracy across four instruction-tuned LLMs.
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Detecting and Pruning Prominent but Detrimental Neurons in Large Language Models
Pruning the most attribution-prominent MLP neurons in a single layer, chosen via a 10-sample validation sweep, consistently improves multiple-choice accuracy across four instruction-tuned LLMs.