Calibration Language Shapes Block-Influence Pruning in Multilingual Language Models

arXiv:2610.21383 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-15

Updated: 2026-10-15

Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures. Code and results: https://github.com/VedantPandhare/Language-Balanced-Depth-Pruning-of-Small-Multilingual-LLMs.git

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

Terminology

• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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