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Findings
- IC-1386Fact recall in OPT and LLaMA models degrades by more than 5% relative accuracy when more than 30% of weights are pruned, and similarly when moving from the 30B to the 13B dense model [primary]
- IC-1387In-context learning capabilities in OPT and LLaMA models remain within 5% of dense-model accuracy even at 60-70% sparsity, and show less than 2% difference between the 30B and 1.3B dense OPT models [primary]
- IC-1388In LLaMA-13B, feed-forward layers are more critical than attention layers for fact recall, while both are equally important for in-context learning [primary]
- IC-401Ablating safety attention heads minimally degrades helpfulness on zero-shot tasks and also impairs course-correction capability in Llama-2-7b-chat [compared-to]
- IC-747SOTA pruning methods (SparseGPT, Wanda, magnitude) cause significant degradation on knowledge-intensive tasks for Vicuna and Llama models at 25-30%+ unstructured sparsity, and fail completely for n:m structured sparsity [builds-on]
- IC-747SOTA pruning methods (SparseGPT, Wanda, magnitude) cause significant degradation on knowledge-intensive tasks for Vicuna and Llama models at 25-30%+ unstructured sparsity, and fail completely for n:m structured sparsity [primary]
- IC-748Pruned LLMs at ≥50% sparsity remain robust in-context retrievers and summarizers, with Vicuna-7B matching up to ~40% sparsity and Vicuna-13B up to ~50% sparsity in open-book settings [primary]
- IC-749Compressed Vicuna-13B at 46.16% sparsity (matching 7B parameter count) achieves lower MMLU accuracy than dense Vicuna-7B, indicating large-sparse models do not outperform small-dense at matched size [primary]