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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

AI Model Shrinks 50% Without Compromising Performance

New evolutionary pruning method, DarwinLM, compresses large language models by 50% without losing performance. Achieves 2x compression with 97%+ performance maintained.

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New evolutionary pruning method called DarwinLM for compressing large language models
Uses genetic algorithm approach to find optimal pruning structures
Achieves 2x compression while maintaining 97%+ performance
Introduces novel mutation and crossover operations specific to transformer architectures
Demonstrates effectivenes...