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  1. IrekoGPT: Turning Structured Pruning into Post-Hoc Slimmable LLMs

    Sep 30, 2026Pietro Moriello, Pietro Buzzega, Angelo Porrello +1Large Language Model CompressionStructured Pruning

    AImageLab, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

  2. Beyond Token Importance: Preserving Spatial Scaffolds for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Inference

    Sep 29, 2026Jiayu Chen, Shuyong Gao, Jingkai Jia +6Visual Token PruningDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-Actions

    Fudan University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  3. Semantic Prefix Oracles for LLM Decoding: Contracts and Differential Validation

    Sep 28, 2026Paul Kronlund-DrouaultContext-Free GrammarsProgram Analysis

    ENS de Lyon Lyon, France · Unsuspicious Industries Paris, France · Université de Lille Lille, France

  4. SlimWise: Decoupling Expert Pruning Across Prefill and Decode for Efficient MoE Serving

    Sep 28, 2026Gunho Park, Kyoungho Jeun, Juntaek Oh +3Mixture-Of-ExpertsLLM Inference Optimization

    a2sys · KAIST

  5. Fisher Simplicity in Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks and Multilayer Perceptrons

    Sep 26, 2026Ami Tavory, Meir FederKolmogorov-Arnold NetworksMultilayer Perceptrons

    Meta Platforms Tel-Aviv, Israel · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv, Israel

  6. RAZOR: Pruning Replaceable Experts in LLMs

    Sep 24, 2026Mingyang Song, Mao ZhengMixture-Of-Experts Large Language ModelsStructured Pruning

    Foundation Model Department, Tencent, China

  7. DTKDP: A Dual Teacher Knowledge Distillation and Pruning Framework for Lightweight Oriented SAR Ship Detection

    Sep 21, 2026Yuming Li, Fan Zhang, Alin M. AchimShip DetectionSynthetic Aperture Radar

    Visual Information Labs, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 6AZ, UK

  8. Artificial Structure Function Search: Preserving Artificial Functional Connectivity for Structured Pruning

    Sep 21, 2026Mindula Illeperuma, Rafael Pina, Charuka Herath +2Unstructured PruningStructured Pruning

    Intitute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London · Center for Neuromorphic Intelligence, Aston University

  9. Recovering Aggressively Pruned Vision-Language-Action Models with Offline Hidden-State Distillation

    Sep 17, 2026Chiyoung Kim, Sanghyuk Roy Choi, Minhyeok LeeDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsStructured Pruning

    Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  10. Beyond Truncation: Rethinking LLM Decoding as Ensemble Pruning

    Sep 16, 2026Dunyao Xue, Chengshuo Du, Zhengbo Wang +2Large Language Model DecodingDecoding

    Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China · Big Data and Responsible Artificial Intelligence for National Governance, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China · Center for Applied Statistics, Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

  11. What Breaks Under Pruning in Smart Homes, and When? Evaluating LLM Degradation Across Architectures and Task Complexity

    Sep 15, 2026Congjing Zhang, Vashishtha Patil, Henning Lange +1Structured PruningSmart Homes

    Alexa Home AI, Amazon.com · University of Washington

  12. LILA: Calibration-Free Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Latent Spectral Geometry

    Sep 11, 2026Sankar Behera, Dhruv Singh, Anshika Agnihotri +3Large Language Model CompressionUnstructured Pruning

    CSE, IIT Jammu · Mathematics, IIT Jammu · IT, EC Bikaner +1

  13. AttnCompress: Dynamic Attention-Guided Trajectory Compression for Software Engineering Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Zhengran Zeng, Yixin Li, Rui Xie +2Task-Aware CompressionData Compression Methods

    Peking University, China

  14. PruneShift: A Framework for Evaluating Decision Reliability in Structured Pruning

    Aug 30, 2026Hao Ye, Gaopeng ZhangStructured PruningMachine Learning Surrogates

    Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  15. Unifying Depth and Width Pruning for LLMs via Binary Knapsack Optimization

    Aug 13, 2026Palaash Goel, Ayan Sengupta, Akshay Nambi +1Large Language Model CompressionStructured Pruning

    Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi · Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi · Microsoft Research (MSR) India

  16. Not Worth Another Token: Marginal Value Estimation for Efficient Deep Research Agents

    Aug 9, 2026Harshitha Kolukuluru, Reshma Ashok, Kirat Arora +7Deep ResearchLong-Horizon Agents

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · The University of Texas at Austin · Adobe Research

  17. Interpretable reinforcement learning with decision-tree pruning

    Aug 7, 2026Mark Leon Ringer, Michel TokicStructured Pruning

    Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany · Siemens AG, Data & Artificial Intelligence, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81739 Munich, Germany

  18. The Sparsity Whisperer

    Aug 6, 2026Linghao Kong, Inimai Subramanian, Micah Adler +3SparsityStructured Pruning

    MIT · IST Austria · IBM +1

  19. APQF: Agentic Profiling-Guided Structured Pruning and Mixed-Precision Quantization with Adaptive Fine-Tuning

    Aug 6, 2026Sadegh Jafari, Mohiuddin Bilwal, Fan Zhou +2Mixed-Precision QuantizationStructured Pruning

    Department of Computer Science Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA · Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA

  20. Effective pruning of task-trained recurrent neural networks using noisy fluctuations and connection rescaling

    Aug 5, 2026Sanjith Senthil, Rishidev ChaudhuriRecurrent Neural NetworksStructured Pruning

    1The Harker School, San Jose, CA 95129, USA · Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis, Davis CA 95616 · Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, Davis CA 95616 +1

  21. StaticSegFormer: An Efficient High-Performance Semantic Segmentation Based on Static Structured Pruning

    Aug 5, 2026Timo Bartels, Danish Nazir, Jan Piewek +2Efficient Semantic SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany · Group Innovation, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

  22. Rethinking Reservoir Pruning: A Dynamical Perspective for Echo State Networks

    Aug 5, 2026Sudip Laudari, Puspa Raj AdhikariReservoir ComputingRecurrent Neural Networks

    Independent Researcher. · Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University.

  23. Understanding Fault Tolerance of Adversarially Robust Pruned Models

    Aug 4, 2026Manali Dangarikar, Cory MerkelModern Deep NetworksStructured Pruning

    Brain Lab Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY, USA

  24. SepPrune:A Separator-based Pruning Framework for Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 28, 2026Yuchen Wang, Qihui Zhu, Yang Liu +2Visual Token PruningLong Visual-Token Sequences

    MoE Key Lab of BIPC, NEL-BITA, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · ChangXin Memory Technologies, Hefei, China · APKL of BIIP, IAI, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China

  25. Importance-Aware OBS Pruning for Diffusion Models

    Jul 22, 2026Ba-Thinh Lam, Srijan Das, Hieu LeDiffusion ModelsGenerative Image Compression

    Department of Computer Science UNC Charlotte NC, USA

  26. CoCurve: Cross-Module Co-Pruning Curvature for Training-Free Structured LLM Pruning

    Jul 20, 2026Zhiren Gong, Zihao Zeng, Zijie Wang +3Structured PruningLarge Language Model Compression

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  27. Half the Experts, All the Code: One-Shot Domain Pruning of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs for Coding

    Jul 18, 2026Anik JhaMixture-Of-Experts Large Language ModelsMixture-Of-Experts

    1Independent Researcher

  28. CASP: Learning-Augmented Offline Approximation with Verifiable Certificates and Bounded-Loss PAC Guarantees

    Jul 16, 2026Haifeng Li, Mo HaiCertificatesStructured Pruning

    School of Information, Central University of Finance and Economics Beijing 102206, China

  29. ShortOPD: Recovering Pruned LLMs with Short-to-Long On-Policy Distillation

    Jul 14, 2026Qingyu Zhang, Qianhao Yuan, Hongyu Lin +7Structured PruningUni-Opd

    2Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · 1ByteDance

  30. Structured Pruning of Large Language Models via Power Transformation and Sign-Preserving Score Aggregation with Adaptive Feature Retention

    Jul 9, 2026Ryota Kobayashi, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita +4Unstructured PruningStructured Pruning

    1Chubu University · 2Panasonic Holdings Corporation

  31. AdaptiveSplat:Texture Aware Controllable 3D Gaussian Allocation for Feed-Forward Reconstruction

    Jul 5, 2026Badrinath Singhal, Srihari K G, Sreehari Iyer +23D GaussianFeed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

    Vision and AI Lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore · Samsung R & D Institute India - Bangalore

  32. Precomputing the Future-Offset Average in TriAttention

    Jul 1, 2026Amarnath MukherjeeKimi Delta AttentionKey-Value Cache

    Hozhoke, Inc.

  33. Post-Training Pruning for Diffusion Transformers

    Jul 1, 2026Chengzhi Hu, Xuewen Liu, Jing Zhang +3Diffusion TransformersTransformer Architectures

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  34. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Neural Network Compression (HiReLC): Pruning and Quantization

    Jun 24, 2026Kamar Hibatallah Baghdadi, Kawther Guoual Belhamidi, Sara Belhadj +2Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningDeep Q-Networks

    aNational School of Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA), Sidi Abdellah Campus, Algiers, Algeria · bCosys-Grettia, Univ Gustave Eiffel, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallee, France. · aNational School of Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA), Sidi Abdellah

  35. Toward Low-Latency Vision-Language Models with Doubly-Correct Predictions in Egocentric Visual Understanding

    Jun 23, 2026Qitong Wang, Fan Du, Pranav Maneriker +2Visual Token PruningStructured Pruning

    Dolby Laboratories, Inc., 1275 Market St, San Francisco, California, 94103, USA · Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA · Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

  36. Attribution-Guided and Coverage-Maximized Pruning for Structural MoE Compression

    Jun 16, 2026Yifu Ding, Jiacheng Wang, Ge Yang +4Mixture-Of-Expert InferenceMixture-Of-Experts

    State Key Laboratory of Complex & Critical Software Environment, Beihang University · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University · Nanyang Technological University +1

  37. Co-Scraper: query-aware DOM Pruning and Reusable Scraper Synthesis for Lightweight Web Data Extraction

    Jun 12, 2026Shoupeng Wang, Jiantao Qiu, Wuyang Zhang +1Agentic CrawlersStructured Pruning

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, OpenDataLab · University of Science and Technology of China

  38. Small LLMs: Pruning vs. Training from Scratch

    Jun 12, 2026Yufeng Xu, Taiming Lu, Kunjun Li +3Small Large Language ModelsStructured Pruning

    Princeton University · New York University · Carnegie Mellon University

  39. Efficiency-Performance Trade-offs in Neural Speaker Diarization via Structured Pruning and Low-Bit Quantization

    Jun 12, 2026Rishit Chatterjee, Tahiya ChowdhurySpeaker DiarizationNeural Speech Codecs

    Department of Computer Science, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, United States

  40. Selecting Samples on Graphs: A Unified Dataset Pruning Framework for Lossless Training Acceleration

    Jun 11, 2026Dongyue Wu, Zilin Guo, Xiaoyu Li +4Structured PruningGraph Representation Learning

    State Key Laboratory of Multispectral Information Intelligent Processing Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · Ant Group, Hangzhou, China

  41. OrderDP: A Theoretically Guaranteed Lossless Dynamic Data Pruning Framework

    Jun 7, 2026Chenhan Jin, Shengze Xu, Qingsong Wang +3Structured PruningPrivacy-Preserving Machine Learning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Xiangtan University · University of Utah +3

  42. SAFE-Pruner: Semantic Attention-Guided Future-Aware Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

    May 28, 2026Shilin Ma, Chubin Zhang, Changyuan Wang +6Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVisual Token Pruning

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · GigaAI

  43. AsymVLM: Asymmetric Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Model Inference

    May 28, 2026Yilin Feng, Ahmed Burak Gulhan, Mahmut Taylan KandemirVisual Token PruningLarge Language Model Compression

    The Pennsylvania State University

  44. PINE: Pruning Boosted Tree Ensembles with Conformal In-Distribution Prediction Equivalence

    May 27, 2026Haruki Yajima, Yusuke MatsuiTree EnsemblesStructured Pruning

    The University of Tokyo.

  45. MuCRASP: Multimodal Chain-of-thought Reasoning aware Structured Pruning

    May 25, 2026Aritra Dutta, Somak AdityaMultimodal Large Language ModelsVisual Token Pruning

    Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  46. Partial Fusion of Neural Networks: Efficient Tradeoffs Between Ensembles and Weight Aggregation

    May 21, 2026Fabian Morelli, Stephan EcksteinNeural NetworkEnsemble

    Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen, Germany · Department of Mathematics, University of Tübingen, Germany.

  47. MedCore: Boundary-Preserving Medical Core Pruning for MedSAM

    May 13, 2026Cenwei Zhang, Suncheng Xiang, Lei YouSemi-Supervised Medical Image SegmentationStructured Pruning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Technical University of Denmark Ballerup, Denmark

  48. STOP: Structured On-Policy Pruning of Long-Form Reasoning in Low-Data Regimes

    May 13, 2026Chenjun Xu, Zhennan Zhou, Zhan Su +3Structured PruningDeepseek

    University of Washington · University of Montreal

  49. RUBEN: Rule-Based Explanations for Retrieval-Augmented LLM Systems

    May 11, 2026Joel Rorseth, Parke Godfrey, Lukasz Golab +2Large Language Model SafetyExplainable AI Methods

    University of Waterloo · York University · AT&T Chief Data Office

  50. PruneTIR: Inference-Time Tool Call Pruning for Effective yet Efficient Tool-Integrated Reasoning

    May 11, 2026Luan Zhang, Dandan Song, Zhijing Wu +8LLM Reasoning StrategiesInference-Time

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, China · 3Independent, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

  51. Selection Plateau and a Sparsity-Dependent Hierarchy of Pruning Features

    May 10, 2026Guangqi Li, Yongxin LiSparsityStructured Pruning

    Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang, Shandong, China

  52. Compact SO(3) Equivariant Atomistic Foundation Models via Structural Pruning

    May 9, 2026Chen Wang, Siyu Hu, Guangming Tan +1Wireless Foundation ModelsStructured Pruning

    State Key Lab of Processors, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  53. SlimQwen: Exploring the Pruning and Distillation in Large MoE Model Pre-training

    May 9, 2026Shengkun Tang, Zekun Wang, Bo Zheng +7Large Language Model CompressionLarge Language Model Pretraining

    Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc. · MBZUAI · KAUST

  54. Structural Pruning of Large Vision Language Models: A Comprehensive Study on Pruning Dynamics, Recovery, and Data Efficiency

    Apr 27, 2026Yiran Huang, Lukas Thede, Massimiliano Mancini +2Large Language Model CompressionStructured Pruning

    Technical University of Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Germany. · Helmholtz Munich, Germany. +3

  55. GRASPrune: Global Gating for Budgeted Structured Pruning of Large Language Models

    Apr 21, 2026Ziyang Wang, Jiangfeng Xiao, Chuan Xiao +3Large Language Model CompressionUnstructured Pruning

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai · Shenzhen University · Osaka University

  56. Evolutionary Negative Module Pruning for Better LoRA Merging

    Apr 20, 2026Anda Cao, Zhuo Gou, Yi Wang +5Large Language Model AdaptationLarge Language Model Compression

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University · 3State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Security, Zhejiang University +1

  57. Pruning Unsafe Tickets: A Resource-Efficient Framework for Safer and More Robust LLMs

    Apr 17, 2026Wai Man Si, Mingjie Li, Michael Backes +1Large Language Model SafetyUnsafe

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  58. VisPCO: Visual Token Pruning Configuration Optimization via Budget-Aware Pareto-Frontier Learning for Vision-Language Models

    Apr 16, 2026Huawei Ji, Yuanhao Sun, Yuan Jin +4Visual Token PruningRecent Vision-Language Models

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

  59. Keeping the Evidence Chain: Semantic Evidence Allocation for Training-Free Token Pruning in Video Temporal Grounding

    Mar 5, 2026Jiaqi Li, Shuntian Zheng, Yixian Shen +4Video Temporal GroundingTemporal Grounding

    University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom · University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1012 WX, Netherlands · Amazon AGI, The United States of America

  60. Self-Improving Neural Pruning: A Graph Neural Network Framework for Scalable Mixed Bundle Pricing

    Sep 26, 2025Liangyu Ding, Chenghan Wu, Guokai Li +1Dynamic PricingGraph Neural Networks

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China