Diet Your LLM: Dimension-wise Global Pruning of LLMs via Merging Task-specific Importance Score

arXiv:2603.23985 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-03-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-03-25

Updated: 2026-10-18

Comments: 18 pages. Code available at https://github.com/Jimmy145123/DIET

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Pruning — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Sparsity — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

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