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2025-04-22 at 16:45
Can Compressing Foundation Models be as Easy as Image Compression?
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Abstract: The talk introduces Any Compression via Iterative Pruning (ACIP), a novel approach designed to give users intuitive control over the compression-performance trade-off. ACIP uses a single gradient descent run of iterative pruning to establish a global parameter ranking, enabling immediate materialization of models of any target size. It demonstrates strong predictive performance on downstream tasks without costly fine-tuning and achieves state-of-the-art compression for open-weight LLMs, often complementing common quantization techniques.