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[โ€“] afk_strats@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Submitted in 2018. Does anyone know of any working implementations?

[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I don't know about implementation, but a lot of theoretical work I've been seeing with regards to LLMs and other deep learning models appear to confirm the central claim of this paper.

The most recent one I remember reading was this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00978

[โ€“] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A superficial search returned:

2020: https://github.com/rahulvigneswaran/Lottery-Ticket-Hypothesis-in-Pytorch

2024: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04861

2025: https://github.com/gabrielolympie/moe-pruner

But yeah, in hindsight, I've been hearing about this stuff since 2019, it is not that new, given everything else. I added the paper date to the title.

[โ€“] afk_strats@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Working pruning techniques are tested and seem at least good at maintaining coherent transformer MOE models. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.13999

There are several working examples of REAP pruned models HuggingFace and that method seems very good.

The op paper suggests a technique which starts with an arbitrary structured expers pruned during training. I'm not 100% understanding it, but I still don't think I've seen this exact technique which might be even more efficient