CFSP: An Efficient Structured Pruning Framework for LLMs with Coarse-to-Fine Activation Information.
| Authors | Yuxin Wang 0002 et al. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Venue | COLING 2025 |
| Paper | View on ACL Anthology |
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