Different Prompts, Different Ranks: Prompt-aware Dynamic Rank Selection for SVD-based LLM Compression

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Autori principali: Zhu, Hengyi, Mi, Zhendong, Zhang, Grace Li, Huang, Shaoyi
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author Zhu, Hengyi
Mi, Zhendong
Zhang, Grace Li
Huang, Shaoyi
author_facet Zhu, Hengyi
Mi, Zhendong
Zhang, Grace Li
Huang, Shaoyi
contents Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly grown in scale, creating substantial memory and computational costs that hinder efficient deployment. Singular value decomposition (SVD) has emerged as an effective post-training compression technique, but existing SVD-based methods rely on static rank truncation, applying a fixed prefix of singular components to all inputs regardless of their diversity. We identify two limitations of this static design: the optimal rank varies across individual prompts, and the selected rank is sensitive to the choice of calibration set, leading to suboptimal performance across diverse inputs. To address these challenges, we propose $\textbf{PARSE}$, a post-training framework for $\textbf{P}$rompt-$\textbf{A}$ware $\textbf{R}$ank $\textbf{S}$election as $\textbf{E}$xperts in SVD-compressed LLMs. PARSE trains a linear router offline to perform prompt-aware rank selection, decoupling it from calibration information by supervising the router against dense-model outputs on a large-scale corpus. We further observe that rank-selection patterns are shared across semantically similar prompts and remain stable across decoding steps, allowing appropriate rank subsets to be served directly from a pattern cache at inference. Complemented by expert memory aggregation and kernel fusion for system-level efficiency, PARSE is orthogonal to existing SVD-based pipelines and consistently improves both model quality and inference efficiency. Integrated with four representative SVD-based methods, PARSE improves average task accuracy by up to 10% at a compression ratio of 0.6 on LLaMA-7B, and achieves up to 2.5 $\times$ prefill and 2.4 $\times$ decode speedup over native SVD execution.
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spellingShingle Different Prompts, Different Ranks: Prompt-aware Dynamic Rank Selection for SVD-based LLM Compression
Zhu, Hengyi
Mi, Zhendong
Zhang, Grace Li
Huang, Shaoyi
Machine Learning
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly grown in scale, creating substantial memory and computational costs that hinder efficient deployment. Singular value decomposition (SVD) has emerged as an effective post-training compression technique, but existing SVD-based methods rely on static rank truncation, applying a fixed prefix of singular components to all inputs regardless of their diversity. We identify two limitations of this static design: the optimal rank varies across individual prompts, and the selected rank is sensitive to the choice of calibration set, leading to suboptimal performance across diverse inputs. To address these challenges, we propose $\textbf{PARSE}$, a post-training framework for $\textbf{P}$rompt-$\textbf{A}$ware $\textbf{R}$ank $\textbf{S}$election as $\textbf{E}$xperts in SVD-compressed LLMs. PARSE trains a linear router offline to perform prompt-aware rank selection, decoupling it from calibration information by supervising the router against dense-model outputs on a large-scale corpus. We further observe that rank-selection patterns are shared across semantically similar prompts and remain stable across decoding steps, allowing appropriate rank subsets to be served directly from a pattern cache at inference. Complemented by expert memory aggregation and kernel fusion for system-level efficiency, PARSE is orthogonal to existing SVD-based pipelines and consistently improves both model quality and inference efficiency. Integrated with four representative SVD-based methods, PARSE improves average task accuracy by up to 10% at a compression ratio of 0.6 on LLaMA-7B, and achieves up to 2.5 $\times$ prefill and 2.4 $\times$ decode speedup over native SVD execution.
title Different Prompts, Different Ranks: Prompt-aware Dynamic Rank Selection for SVD-based LLM Compression
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08568