Output-aware Residual Stream Pruning for Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.35579 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Mistral 7B
• Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
• RedPajama: an Open Dataset for Training Large Language Models
• Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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