The Sparsity Whisperer
Linghao Kong, Inimai Subramanian, Micah Adler, Dan Alistarh, Dan Gutfreund, Nir Shavit
cs.LG
Submitted: 2026-08-06
Updated: 2026-08-10
Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. Code available at https://github.com/Shavit-Lab/Whisper
Code: https://github.com/Shavit-Lab/Whisper
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Terminology
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- The Llama 3 Herd of Models
- GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers
- Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding
- Mistral 7B
- CATS: Contextually-Aware Thresholding for Sparsity in Large Language Models
- MACKO: Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication for Low Sparsity
- Pointer Sentinel Mixture Models
- Accelerating Sparse Deep Neural Networks
- A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
- Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
- Qwen3 Technical Report
- HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence?
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