Adaptive Depth Sparse Framework: Similarity-Driven Resource Allocation for Pre-Trained LLMs

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.21291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong generation and reasoning performance, but the Transformer architecture incurs high inference cost. Existing acceleration methods often rely on task-specific fine-tuning or training from scratch, increasing adaptation cost and limiting cross-task usability. We present an Adaptive Depth Sparse Framework (AdaDSF) that converts off-the-shelf pre-trained LLMs into depth-sparse models without full retraining. Our key insight is that layers contribute unequally to representation transformation, characterized by the cosine similarity between layer input and output hidden states. Based on this, AdaDSF assigns layer-wise token retention ratios from similarity statistics, uses a lightweight router to select in