Data-Free Pruning of Self-Attention Layers in LLMs

arXiv:2512.20636 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2025-12-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2025-12-03

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Pruning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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