Pruning small-magnitude weights from pre-trained LLMs causes monotonic irreversible performance degradation on difficult downstream tasks, supporting the Junk DNA Hypothesis that these weights hold essential knowledge.
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Junk DNA Hypothesis: Pruning Small Pre-Trained Weights Irreversibly and Monotonically Impairs "Difficult" Downstream Tasks in LLMs
Pruning small-magnitude weights from pre-trained LLMs causes monotonic irreversible performance degradation on difficult downstream tasks, supporting the Junk DNA Hypothesis that these weights hold essential knowledge.