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pith:G6NACNUN

pith:2021:G6NACNUNUD4BMEYC77DTEYXLDV

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Block Pruning For Faster Transformers

Alexander M. Rush, Ella Charlaix, Fran\c{c}ois Lagunas, Victor Sanh

arxiv:2109.04838 v1 · 2021-09-10 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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TELL-TALE: Task Efficient LLMs with Task Aware Layer Elimination

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Canonical hash

379a01368da0f8161302ffc73262eb1d4834b0bae61ce464ace32e8374cba20b

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arxiv: 2109.04838 · arxiv_version: 2109.04838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.04838 · pith_short_12: G6NACNUNUD4B · pith_short_16: G6NACNUNUD4BMEYC · pith_short_8: G6NACNUN

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G6NACNUNUD4BMEYC77DTEYXLDV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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