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Pruning
AI Glossary Term
What is Pruning?
Definition
Removing less important model weights or neurons to reduce size and compute.
Related terms
Sliding Window Attention
An attention pattern where each token attends only to a fixed-size window of nearby tokens to reduce compute.
Scaling Law
An empirical relationship showing how performance improves with model size, data, or compute.
Distilled Model
A smaller model trained to imitate a larger model's behavior while using less compute at inference.
Backpropagation
The core training algorithm that updates model weights by propagating prediction errors backward through the network.
Compute
The processing resources required to train and run models, often measured in FLOPS or GPU hours.
Gradient
A vector showing how much each parameter should change to reduce loss.
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Attention Rollout and Head Pruning
Structured Pruning and Layer Dropping
Model Pruning
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