Enhancing One-shot Pruned Pre-trained Language Models through Sparse-Dense-Sparse Mechanism
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| author | Li, Guanchen Zhao, Xiandong Liu, Lian Li, Zeping Li, Dong Tian, Lu He, Jie Sirasao, Ashish Barsoum, Emad |
| author_facet | Li, Guanchen Zhao, Xiandong Liu, Lian Li, Zeping Li, Dong Tian, Lu He, Jie Sirasao, Ashish Barsoum, Emad |
| contents | Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are engineered to be robust in contextual understanding and exhibit outstanding performance in various natural language processing tasks. However, their considerable size incurs significant computational and storage costs. Modern pruning strategies employ one-shot techniques to compress PLMs without the need for retraining on task-specific or otherwise general data; however, these approaches often lead to an indispensable reduction in performance. In this paper, we propose SDS, a Sparse-Dense-Sparse pruning framework to enhance the performance of the pruned PLMs from a weight distribution optimization perspective. We outline the pruning process in three steps. Initially, we prune less critical connections in the model using conventional one-shot pruning methods. Next, we reconstruct a dense model featuring a pruning-friendly weight distribution by reactivating pruned connections with sparse regularization. Finally, we perform a second pruning round, yielding a superior pruned model compared to the initial pruning. Experimental results demonstrate that SDS outperforms the state-of-the-art pruning techniques SparseGPT and Wanda under an identical sparsity configuration. For instance, SDS reduces perplexity by 9.13 on Raw-Wikitext2 and improves accuracy by an average of 2.05% across multiple zero-shot benchmarks for OPT-125M with 2:4 sparsity. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhancing One-shot Pruned Pre-trained Language Models through Sparse-Dense-Sparse Mechanism Li, Guanchen Zhao, Xiandong Liu, Lian Li, Zeping Li, Dong Tian, Lu He, Jie Sirasao, Ashish Barsoum, Emad Computation and Language Machine Learning Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are engineered to be robust in contextual understanding and exhibit outstanding performance in various natural language processing tasks. However, their considerable size incurs significant computational and storage costs. Modern pruning strategies employ one-shot techniques to compress PLMs without the need for retraining on task-specific or otherwise general data; however, these approaches often lead to an indispensable reduction in performance. In this paper, we propose SDS, a Sparse-Dense-Sparse pruning framework to enhance the performance of the pruned PLMs from a weight distribution optimization perspective. We outline the pruning process in three steps. Initially, we prune less critical connections in the model using conventional one-shot pruning methods. Next, we reconstruct a dense model featuring a pruning-friendly weight distribution by reactivating pruned connections with sparse regularization. Finally, we perform a second pruning round, yielding a superior pruned model compared to the initial pruning. Experimental results demonstrate that SDS outperforms the state-of-the-art pruning techniques SparseGPT and Wanda under an identical sparsity configuration. For instance, SDS reduces perplexity by 9.13 on Raw-Wikitext2 and improves accuracy by an average of 2.05% across multiple zero-shot benchmarks for OPT-125M with 2:4 sparsity. |
| title | Enhancing One-shot Pruned Pre-trained Language Models through Sparse-Dense-Sparse Mechanism |
| topic | Computation and Language Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10473 |