Unified Static-Dynamic Pruning for Efficient LLM Inference
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arXiv:2607.21985v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The increasing deployment of large language models (LLMs) has magnified the computational and memory bottlenecks of autoregressive decoding, where low compute intensity and bandwidth-bound kernels dominate inference cost. Weight pruning offers a promising remedy, but existing methods remain confined to either static pruning (SP), which permanently removes redundant weights but lacks adaptivity, or dynamic pruning (DP), which adapts to input sparsity but introduces runtime irregularity. This paper presents SPDP, a unified sparse-inferenc
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- arXiv:2607.21985v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The increasing deployment of large language models (LLMs) has magnified the computational and memory bottlenecks of autoregressive decoding, where low compute intensity and bandwidth-bound kernels dominate inference cost.
- Weight pruning offers a promising remedy, but existing methods remain confined to either static pruning (SP), which permanently removes redundant weights but lacks adaptivity, or dynamic pruning (DP), which adapts to input sparsity but introduces runtime irregularity.
- This paper presents SPDP, a unified sparse-inferenc
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