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Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem
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huggingface | Sep 21, 2026 | Antonio Tiene, Ali Hashemi, David Jansen, Roman Rausch
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Our latest paper, LLM Compression by Block Removal with Constrained Binary Optimization, takes that correspondence literally. Whether removing block 20 hurts the model depends on whether you also removed block 19 or block 24, an interaction, or coupling, between the two decisions. The best model is an excited state, not the ground state.
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