Mechanistic Failure Modes of Weight Pruning in Transformer Language Models

arXiv:2610.37126 · cs.LG, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-27

Updated: 2026-10-27

Terminology

• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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