LLM-Pruner
On the Structural Pruning of Large Language Models
...LLM-Pruner addresses this issue by identifying and removing non-essential components within transformer architectures, such as redundant attention heads or feed-forward structures. The framework relies on gradient-based analysis to determine which parameters contribute least to model performance, enabling targeted structural pruning rather than simple weight removal. After pruning, the framework applies lightweight fine-tuning methods such as LoRA to recover performance using relatively small datasets and short training times.