Rethinking Pruning Large Language Models: Benefits and Pitfalls of Reconstruction Error Minimization
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| author | Shin, Sungbin Park, Wonpyo Lee, Jaeho Lee, Namhoon |
| author_facet | Shin, Sungbin Park, Wonpyo Lee, Jaeho Lee, Namhoon |
| contents | This work suggests fundamentally rethinking the current practice of pruning large language models (LLMs). The way it is done is by divide and conquer: split the model into submodels, sequentially prune them, and reconstruct predictions of the dense counterparts on small calibration data one at a time; the final model is obtained simply by putting the resulting sparse submodels together. While this approach enables pruning under memory constraints, it generates high reconstruction errors. In this work, we first present an array of reconstruction techniques that can significantly reduce this error by more than $90\%$. Unwittingly, however, we discover that minimizing reconstruction error is not always ideal and can overfit the given calibration data, resulting in rather increased language perplexity and poor performance at downstream tasks. We find out that a strategy of self-generating calibration data can mitigate this trade-off between reconstruction and generalization, suggesting new directions in the presence of both benefits and pitfalls of reconstruction for pruning LLMs. |
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| spellingShingle | Rethinking Pruning Large Language Models: Benefits and Pitfalls of Reconstruction Error Minimization Shin, Sungbin Park, Wonpyo Lee, Jaeho Lee, Namhoon Computation and Language Machine Learning This work suggests fundamentally rethinking the current practice of pruning large language models (LLMs). The way it is done is by divide and conquer: split the model into submodels, sequentially prune them, and reconstruct predictions of the dense counterparts on small calibration data one at a time; the final model is obtained simply by putting the resulting sparse submodels together. While this approach enables pruning under memory constraints, it generates high reconstruction errors. In this work, we first present an array of reconstruction techniques that can significantly reduce this error by more than $90\%$. Unwittingly, however, we discover that minimizing reconstruction error is not always ideal and can overfit the given calibration data, resulting in rather increased language perplexity and poor performance at downstream tasks. We find out that a strategy of self-generating calibration data can mitigate this trade-off between reconstruction and generalization, suggesting new directions in the presence of both benefits and pitfalls of reconstruction for pruning LLMs. |
| title | Rethinking Pruning Large Language Models: Benefits and Pitfalls of Reconstruction Error Minimization |
| topic | Computation and Language Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15524 |