🪶 Efficient models & compression
Smaller and faster models: quantization, pruning, distillation and sparse computation.
- Model Tells You What to Discard: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for LLMsSuyu Ge, Yunan Zhang, Liyuan Liu, et al.2023 · 198 citations
- Structured Pruning of Large Language ModelsZiheng Wang, Jeremy Wohlwend, Tao Lei2020 · 196 citations
- OmniQuant: Omnidirectionally Calibrated Quantization for Large Language ModelsWenqi Shao, Mengzhao Chen, Zhaoyang Zhang, et al.2023 · 193 citations
- SqueezeLLM: Dense-and-Sparse QuantizationSehoon Kim, Coleman Hooper, Amir Gholami, et al.2023 · 168 citations
- LLMLingua-2: Data Distillation for Efficient and Faithful Task-Agnostic Prompt CompressionZhuoshi Pan, Qianhui Wu, Huiqiang Jiang, et al.2024 · 159 citations
- LayerSkip: Enabling Early Exit Inference and Self-Speculative DecodingMostafa Elhoushi, Akshat Shrivastava, Diana Liskovich, et al.2024 · 155 citations
- PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information FunnelingZefan Cai, Yichi Zhang, Bofei Gao, et al.2024 · 151 citations
- Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative DecodingHeming Xia, Zhe Yang, Qingxiu Dong, et al.2024 · 145 citations
- SCOTT: Self-Consistent Chain-of-Thought DistillationPeifeng Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li, et al.2023 · 145 citations
- MiniLLM: On-Policy Distillation of Large Language ModelsYuxian Gu, Li Dong, Furu Wei, et al.2023 · 143 citations
- Symbolic Chain-of-Thought Distillation: Small Models Can Also “Think” Step-by-StepLiunian Harold Li, Jack Hessel, Youngjae Yu, et al.2023 · 139 citations
- Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse AttentionJingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, et al.2025 · 135 citations
- The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling LawsTim Dettmers, Luke Zettlemoyer2022 · 119 citations
- I-BERT: Integer-only BERT QuantizationSehoon Kim, Amir Gholami, Zhewei Yao, et al.2021 · 118 citations
- DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context IntelligenceDeepSeek-AI, Anyi Xu, Bangcai Lin, et al.2026 · 117 citations
- QuIP#: Even Better LLM Quantization with Hadamard Incoherence and Lattice CodebooksAlbert Tseng, Jerry Chee, Qingyao Sun, et al.2024 · 116 citations
- DistiLLM: Towards Streamlined Distillation for Large Language ModelsJongwoo Ko, Sungnyun Kim, Tianyi Chen, et al.2024 · 111 citations
- DuoAttention: Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference with Retrieval and Streaming HeadsGuangxuan Xiao, Jiaming Tang, Jingwei Zuo, et al.2024 · 109 citations
- TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMsHeming Xia, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Wang, et al.2025 · 105 citations
- Language Modeling Is CompressionGregoire Deletang, Anian Ruoss, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, et al.2023 · 89 citations
- Tokenization Is More Than CompressionCraig W Schmidt, Varshini Reddy, Haoran Zhang, et al.2024 · 66 citations
- Improving Stance Detection with Multi-Dataset Learning and Knowledge DistillationYingjie Li, Chenye Zhao, Cornelia Caragea2021 · 39 citations
- Towards Cross-Tokenizer Distillation: the Universal Logit Distillation Loss for LLMsNicolas Boizard, Kevin El Haddad, Celine Hudelot, et al.2024 · 34 citations
- MBR and QE Finetuning: Training-time Distillation of the Best and Most Expensive Decoding MethodsMara Finkelstein; Subhajit Naskar; Mehdi Mirzazadeh; Apurva Shah;, Markus Freitag2023 · 30 citations
- The Quantization Model of Neural ScalingEric J. Michaud, Ziming Liu, Uzay Girit, et al.2023 · 27 citations
- Distillation Scaling LawsDan Busbridge, Amitis Shidani, Floris Weers, et al.2025 · 23 citations
- Okay, Let's Do This! Modeling Event Coreference with Generated Rationales and Knowledge DistillationAbhijnan Nath, Shadi Manafi Avari, Avyakta Chelle, et al.2024 · 16 citations
- Selected-Layer Codec Compression for Compact Speech Translation Models: An IWSLT 2026 English-to-Chinese SubmissionAlonso Palomino2026 · 1 citation
- Rationale-Guided Distillation for E-Commerce Relevance Classification: Bridging Large Language Models and Lightweight Cross-EncodersSanjay Agrawal, Faizan Ahemad, Vivek Varadarajan Sembium2025 · 1 citation
- Evaluating Small Language Models for English-to-Portuguese Translation: Impact of Model Scale and QuantizationGustavo Lopes Tamiosso, Rafael Oleques Nunes, Dennis Giovani Balreira2026
- Reason-to-Learn (R2L): Multi-Agent Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight LLMs in Sentiment AnalysisLe-Huy Tu, Quan Nguyen, Vincent NGUYEN, et al.2026
- SPQ: An Ensemble Technique for Large Language Model CompressionJiamin Yao, Eren Gultepe2026
- Terminology-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Distillation for Biomedical Neural Machine TranslationMaria Zafar, Souhail Bakkali, Rejwanul Haque2026
- 大语言模型推理中的键值缓存压缩方法综述 (Survey on KV Cache Compression Methods for Large Language Model Inference)Shipeng Hu (胡世鹏), Guangyan Zhang (张广艳), Weimin Zheng (郑纬民)2026
- 大语言模型推理中的存储优化技术综述 (Survey of Storage Optimization Techniques in Large Language Model Inference)Xuran Ge (葛旭冉), Yang Ou (欧洋), Bo Wang (王博), et al.2025
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