Dynamic Model Routing and Cascading for Efficient LLM Inference: A Survey
Arxiv 2026 [Paper]

A Survey of On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper]

Unifying Data, Memory, and Compute Efficiency in LLM training: A Survey
TAI 2026 [Paper]

From Tensor Buffer to Distributed Memory Hierarchy: A Survey of KV Cache Management for LLM Serving
Arxiv 2026 [Paper]

Towards Efficient Large Language Model Serving: A Survey on System-Aware KV Cache Optimization
ACL Findings 2026 [Paper]

Accelerating Masked Diffusion Large Language Models: A Survey of Efficient Inference Techniques
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 (Survey Track) [Paper]

Compressed but Compromised? A Study of Jailbreaking in Compressed LLMs
NeurIPS Lock-LLM Workshop 2025 [Paper] [Blog]

Scaling Down, Serving Fast: Compressing and Deploying Efficient LLMs for Recommendation Systems
EMNLP 2025 [Paper]

Key, Value, Compress: A Systematic Exploration of KV Cache Compression Techniques
CICC 2025 [Paper]

Are We There Yet? A Measurement Study of Efficiency for LLM Applications on Mobile Devices
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Knowledge Distillation and Dataset Distillation of Large Language Models: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

An Empirical Study on Prompt Compression for Large Language Models
Building Trust Workshop @ ICLR 2025 2025 [Paper] [PCToolkit]

Low-Precision Training of Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [GitHub Page]

Optimizing LLMs for Resource-Constrained Environments: A Survey of Model Compression Techniques
COMPSAC 2025 [Paper]

A Survey on Inference Engines for Large Language Models: Perspectives on Optimization and Efficiency
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [GitHub Page]

EfficientLLM: Efficiency in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Homepage] [Huggingface Page]

KV Cache Compression for Inference Efficiency in LLMs: A Review
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

A Survey on Parallel Text Generation: From Parallel Decoding to Diffusion Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

A Survey on Collaborating Small and Large Language Models for Performance, Cost-effectiveness, Cloud-edge Privacy, and Trustworthiness
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

A Survey on Efficient Large Language Model Training: From Data-centric Perspectives
ACL 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Understanding LLMs: A Comprehensive Overview from Training to Inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Faster and Lighter LLMs: A Survey on Current Challenges and Way Forward
IJCAI 2024 (Survey Track) [Paper] [GitHub Page]

A Survey of Resource-efficient LLM and Multimodal Foundation Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Survey on Hardware Accelerators for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Comprehensive Survey of Compression Algorithms for Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Survey on Transformer Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Model Compression and Efficient Inference for Large Language Models: A Survey
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LLM Inference Unveiled: Survey and Roofline Model Insights
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Survey on Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [GitHub Page]

Efficient Prompting Methods for Large Language Models: A Survey
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Survey on Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models: Methods, Evaluation, and Application
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

On-Device Language Models: A Comprehensive Review
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Download On-device LLMs]

A Survey of Low-bit Large Language Models: Basics, Systems, and Algorithms
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Contextual Compression in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Prompt Compression for Large Language Models: A Survey
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Comprehensive Study on Quantization Techniques for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Survey on Large Language Model Acceleration based on KV Cache Management
TMLR 2025 [Paper]

A Survey on Model Compression for Large Language Models
TACL [Paper]

The Cost of Compression: Investigating the Impact of Compression on Parametric Knowledge in Language Models
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

The Efficiency Spectrum of Large Language Models: An Algorithmic Survey
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Efficient Large Language Models: A Survey
TMLR [Paper] [GitHub Page]

Towards Efficient Generative Large Language Model Serving: A Survey from Algorithms to Systems
ICML 2024 Tutorial [Paper] [Tutorial]

Can Large Language Models Still Explain Themselves? Investigating the Impact of Quantization on Self-Explanations
EMNLP Findings 2026 [Paper]

QSLM: A Performance- and Memory-aware Quantization Framework with Tiered Search Strategy for Spike-driven Language Models
DATE 2026 [Paper]

HAS-VQ: Hessian-Adaptive Sparse Vector Quantization for High-Fidelity LLM Compression
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

ARCQuant: Boosting NVFP4 Quantization with Augmented Residual Channels for LLMs
ACL 2026 [Paper]

Sherry: Hardware-Efficient 1.25-Bit Ternary Quantization via Fine-grained Sparsification
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Calibrating Beyond English: Language Diversity for Better Quantized Multilingual LLM
EACL 2026 [Paper]

M2XFP: A Metadata-Augmented Microscaling Data Format for Efficient Low-bit Quantization
ASPLOS 2026 [Paper]

Quartet II: Accurate LLM Pre-Training in NVFP4 by Improved Unbiased Gradient Estimation
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Two-Stage Grid Optimization for Group-wise Quantization of LLMs
ICASSP 2026 [Paper]

Quantized Evolution Strategies: High-precision Fine-tuning of Quantized LLMs at Low-precision Cost
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

QVLA: Not All Channels Are Equal in Vision-Language-Action Model's Quantization
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

TurboBoA: Faster and Exact Attention-aware Quantization without Backpropagation
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

RaBiT: Residual-Aware Binarization Training for Accurate and Efficient LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper]

NanoQuant: Efficient Sub-1-Bit Quantization of Large Language Models
ICML 2026 [Paper]

On the Importance of a Multi-Scale Calibration for Quantization
ICASSP 2026 [Paper]

QTALE: Quantization-Robust Token-Adaptive Layer Execution for LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper]

QuRL: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Quantized Rollout
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

SPQ: An Ensemble Technique for Large Language Model Compression
LREC 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Quant Experts: Token-aware Adaptive Error Reconstruction with Mixture of Experts for Large Vision-Language Models Quantization
CVPR 2026 [Paper]

MASQuant: Modality-Aware Smoothing Quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models
CVPR 2026 [Paper]

SliderQuant: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

OneComp: One-Line Revolution for Generative AI Model Compression
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Fast NF4 Dequantization Kernels for Large Language Model Inference
ASPLOS 2026 Workshop [Paper]

RUQuant: Towards Refining Uniform Quantization for Large Language Models
KDD 2026 [Paper]

SEPTQ: A Simple and Effective Post-Training Quantization Paradigm for Large Language Models
KDD 2025 [Paper]

ReSpinQuant: Efficient Layer-Wise LLM Quantization via Subspace Residual Rotation Approximation
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Robust Ultra Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization via Stable Diagonal Curvature Estimate
MLSys 2026 [Paper]

AQPIM: Breaking the PIM Capacity Wall for LLMs with In-Memory Activation Quantization
HPCA 2026 [Paper]

From Signal Degradation to Computation Collapse: Uncovering the Two Failure Modes of LLM Quantization
ACL Findings 2026 [Paper]

Statistically-Lossless Quantization of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

EdgeRazor: A Lightweight Framework for Large Language Models via Mixed-Precision Quantization-Aware Distillation
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code] [Model] [Playground]

OSAQ: Outlier Self-Absorption for Accurate Low-bit LLM Quantization
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Normalized Architectures are Natively 4-Bit
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

RQ-MoE: Residual Quantization via Mixture of Experts for Efficient Input-Dependent Vector Compression
ICML 2026 [Paper]

XFP: Quality-Targeted Adaptive Codebook Quantization with Sparse Outlier Separation for LLM Inference
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

GEMQ: Global Expert-Level Mixed-Precision Quantization for MoE LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper] [Code]

EVA: Accelerating LLM Decoding via an Efficient Vector Quantization Architecture
ISCA 2026 [Paper]

Influence-Inspired Spectral Rotations for Extreme Low-Bit LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

InfoQuant: Shaping Activation Distributions for Low-Bit LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

LFQ: Logit-aware Final-block Quantization for Boosting the Generation Quality of Low-Bit Quantized LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper]

LiftQuant: Continuous Bit-Width LLM via Dimensional Lifting and Projection
ICML 2026 [Paper]

UniSVQ: 2-bit Unified Scalar-Vector Quantization
ICML 2026 [Paper]

LC-QAT: Data-Efficient 2-Bit QAT for LLMs via Linear-Constrained Vector Quantization
ICML 2026 [Paper]

TWLA: Achieving Ternary Weights and Low-Bit Activations for LLMs via Post-Training Quantization
ICML 2026 [Paper]

CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Quantize the Target, Quantize the Drafter: Efficient Inference with Qwen3.5-4B
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

KronQ: LLM Quantization via Kronecker-Factored Hessian
COLM 2026 [Paper]

Rethinking Small VLM Quantization: From Component-Wise Analysis to Hardware-Aware Edge Deployment
ICML 2026 Workshop [Paper]

Reliability Scaling Laws for Quantized Large Language Models
TMLR 2026 [Paper]

PolyQ: Codesigning End-to-End Quantization Framework for Scalable Edge CPU LLM Inference
ICCAD 2026 [Paper]

ExaGEMM: Exploration Framework for CPU-Driven ML Inference via Associative In-Register Computing for Low-Bit GEMM
ICCAD 2026 [Paper]

GyRot: Leveraging Hidden Synergy between Rotation and Fine-grained Group Quantization for Low-bit LLM Inference
HPCA 2026 [Paper]

Attend to Your Own Thoughts: Breaking the Barrier for Post-Training Quantization of Reasoning LLMs through the Lens of 1.58-Bit Quantization
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

ARCHead: Activation-Metric Residual Correction for Large Language Model Output Heads
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Compress and Forget: bitsandbytes Quantization Amplifies Proactive Interference in LLMs
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Jacobian-guided Noise Injection for Quantization Robustness in Large Language Models
ICML 2026 [Paper]

HALO: Hadamard-Assisted Lower-Precision Optimization for LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

RaZeR: Pushing the Limits of NVFP4 Quantization with Redundant Zero Remapping
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

FlexQuant: Elastic Quantization Framework for Locally Hosted LLM on Edge Devices
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Rethinking Post-Training Quantization: Introducing a Statistical Pre-Calibration Approach
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Qrazor: Reliable and effortless 4-bit llm quantization by significant data razoring
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

OstQuant: Refining Large Language Model Quantization with Orthogonal and Scaling Transformations for Better Distribution Fitting
ICLR 2025 [Paper] [Code]

SwiftPrune: Hessian-Free Weight Pruning for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Progressive Binarization with Semi-Structured Pruning for LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Physics-Inspired Binary Neural Networks: Interpretable Compression with Theoretical Guarantees
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

QuEST: Stable Training of LLMs with 1-Bit Weights and Activations
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ParetoQ: Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

Systematic Outliers in Large Language Models
ICLR 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Can Post-Training Quantization Benefit from an Additional QLoRA Integration?
NAACL 2025 [Paper]

1bit-Merging: Dynamic Quantized Merging for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Towards Efficient Pre-training: Exploring FP4 Precision in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Continual Quantization-Aware Pre-Training: When to transition from 16-bit to 1.58-bit pre-training for BitNet language models?
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

QuZO: Quantized Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Benchmarking Post-Training Quantization in LLMs: Comprehensive Taxonomy, Unified Evaluation, and Comparative Analysis
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Compression Scaling Laws:Unifying Sparsity and Quantization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

M-ANT: Efficient Low-bit Group Quantization for LLMs via Mathematically Adaptive Numerical Type
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Identifying Sensitive Weights via Post-quantization Integral
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

RSQ: Learning from Important Tokens Leads to Better Quantized LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

VQ-LLM: High-performance Code Generation for Vector Quantization Augmented LLM Inference
HPCA 2025 [Paper]

Universality of Layer-Level Entropy-Weighted Quantization Beyond Model Architecture and Size
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Towards Superior Quantization Accuracy: A Layer-sensitive Approach
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

MergeQuant: Accurate 4-bit Static Quantization of Large Language Models by Channel-wise Calibration
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ClusComp: A Simple Paradigm for Model Compression and Efficient Finetuning
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

DynaMo: Runtime Switchable Quantization for MoE with Cross-Dataset Adaptation
DATE 2026 [Paper]

Cocktail: Chunk-Adaptive Mixed-Precision Quantization for Long-Context LLM Inference
DATE 2025 [Paper]

GPTQv2: Efficient Finetuning-Free Quantization for Asymmetric Calibration
ICML 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Task-Circuit Quantization: Leveraging Knowledge Localization and Interpretability for Compression
COLM 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Quantization Error Propagation: Revisiting Layer-Wise Post-Training Quantization
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper] [Code]

RaanA: A Fast, Flexible, and Data-Efficient Post-Training Quantization Algorithm
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Achieving binary weight and activation for LLMs using Post-Training Quantization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

DL-QAT: Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Quantization-Aware Training for Large Language Models
EMNLP 2024 [Paper]

Gradual Binary Search and Dimension Expansion : A general method for activation quantization in LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

FGMP: Fine-Grained Mixed-Precision Weight and Activation Quantization for Hardware-Accelerated LLM Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

BitNet v2: Native 4-bit Activations with Hadamard Transformation for 1-bit LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

FineQ: Software-Hardware Co-Design for Low-Bit Fine-Grained Mixed-Precision Quantization of LLMs
DATE 2025 [Paper]

Precision Where It Matters: A Novel Spike Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization Strategy for LLaMA-based Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ICQuant: Index Coding enables Low-bit LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Radio: Rate-Distortion Optimization for Large Language Model Compression
ICML 2025 [Paper]

Balancing Fidelity and Plasticity: Aligning Mixed-Precision Fine-Tuning with Linguistic Hierarchies
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

MoEQuant: Enhancing Quantization for Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models via Expert-Balanced Sampling and Affinity Guidance
ICML 2025 [Paper]

Grouped Sequency-arranged Rotation: Optimizing Rotation Transformation for Quantization for Free
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Improving Block-Wise LLM Quantization by 4-bit Block-Wise Optimal Float (BOF4): Analysis and Variations
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

GuidedQuant: Large Language Model Quantization via Exploiting End Loss Guidance
ICML 2025 [Paper] [Code]

QuantX: A Framework for Hardware-Aware Quantization of Generative AI Workloads
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

An Extra RMSNorm is All You Need for Fine Tuning to 1.58 Bits
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ITERA-LLM: Boosting Sub-8-Bit Large Language Model Inference via Iterative Tensor Decomposition
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Fine-tuning Quantized Neural Networks with Zeroth-order Optimization
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Scaling Law for Quantization-Aware Training
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Quaff: Quantized Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning under Outlier Spatial Stability Hypothesis
ACL 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Is (Selective) Round-To-Nearest Quantization All You Need?
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

NeUQI: Near-Optimal Uniform Quantization Parameter Initialization
ICML 2026 [Paper]

LoTA-QAF: Lossless Ternary Adaptation for Quantization-Aware Fine-Tuning
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

FP4 All the Way: Fully Quantized Training of LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

FireQ: Fast INT4-FP8 Kernel and RoPE-aware Quantization for LLM Inference Acceleration
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Rethinking the Outlier Distribution in Large Language Models: An In-depth Study
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Assigning Distinct Roles to Quantized and Low-Rank Matrices Toward Optimal Weight Decomposition
ACL Findings 2025 [Paper]

Unifying Uniform and Binary-coding Quantization for Accurate Compression of Large Language Models
ACL 2025 [Paper]

FPTQuant: Function-Preserving Transforms for LLM Quantization
ICML 2026 [Paper]

BAQ: Efficient Bit Allocation Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

MoQAE: Mixed-Precision Quantization for Long-Context LLM Inference via Mixture of Quantization-Aware Experts
ACL 2025 [Paper]

Unifying Block-wise PTQ and Distillation-based QAT for Progressive Quantization toward 2-bit Instruction-Tuned LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Boost Post-Training Quantization via Null Space Optimization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

FlexQuant: A Flexible and Efficient Dynamic Precision Switching Framework for LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

BTC-LLM: Efficient Sub-1-Bit LLM Quantization via Learnable Transformation and Binary Codebook
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ROSAQ: Rotation-based Saliency-Aware Weight Quantization for Efficiently Compressing Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

LittleBit: Ultra Low-Bit Quantization via Latent Factorization
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

BASE-Q: Bias and Asymmetric Scaling Enhanced Rotational Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

UltraSketchLLM: Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Sketch and Hardware-Friendly Operators
DAC 2026 [Paper]

DBellQuant: Breaking the Bell with Double-Bell Transformation for LLMs Post Training Binarization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

any4: Learned 4-bit Numeric Representation for LLMs
ICML 2025 [Paper]

CCQ: Convolutional Code for Extreme Low-bit Quantization in LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

First-Order Error Matters: Accurate Compensation for Quantized Large Language Models
AAAI 2026 [Paper]

PoTPTQ: A Two-step Power-of-Two Post-training for LLMs
ECAI 2025 [Paper]

EAC-MoE: Expert-Selection Aware Compressor for Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models
ACL 2025 [Paper]

MicroMix: Efficient Mixed-Precision Quantization with Microscaling Formats for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

VLMQ: Token Saliency-Driven Post-Training Quantization for Vision-language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

FlashCommunication V2: Bit Splitting and Spike Reserving for Any Bit Communication
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

FlexQ: Efficient Post-training INT6 Quantization for LLM Serving via Algorithm-System Co-Design
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Provable Post-Training Quantization: Theoretical Analysis of OPTQ and Qronos
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

iFairy: the First 2-bit Complex LLM with All Parameters in ${\pm1, \pm i}$
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Pushing the Envelope of LLM Inference on AI-PC and Intel GPUs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Rethinking 1-bit Optimization Leveraging Pre-trained Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Efficient Edge LLMs Deployment via HessianAware Quantization and CPU GPU Collaborative
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Profiling Large Language Model Inference on Apple Silicon: A Quantization Perspective
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

LLM Compression: How Far Can We Go in Balancing Size and Performance?
RANLP 2025 [Paper]

DLLMQuant: Quantizing Diffusion-based Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Quantization Meets dLLMs: A Systematic Study of Post-training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs
Machine Intelligence Research 2025 [Paper]

Systematic Characterization of LLM Quantization: A Performance, Energy, and Quality Perspective
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Interpreting the Effects of Quantization on LLMs
AACL 2025 [Paper]

Task-Stratified Knowledge Scaling Laws for Post-Training Quantized Large Language Models
ACL Findings 2026 [Paper]

APT-LLM: Exploiting Arbitrary-Precision Tensor Core Computing for LLM Acceleration
TCAD 2025 [Paper]

Quantized but Deceptive? A Multi-Dimensional Truthfulness Evaluation of Quantized LLMs
EMNLP 2025 [Paper]

The Uneven Impact of Post-Training Quantization in Machine Translation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

BitROM: Weight Reload-Free CiROM Architecture Towards Billion-Parameter 1.58-bit LLM Inference
ASP-DAC 2026 [Paper]

AMQ: Enabling AutoML for Mixed-precision Weight-Only Quantization of Large Language Models
EMNLP 2025 [Paper]

Fair-GPTQ: Bias-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

QWHA: Quantization-Aware Walsh-Hadamard Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning on Large Language Models
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Q-Palette: Fractional-Bit Quantizers Toward Optimal Bit Allocation for Efficient LLM Deployment
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

AnyBCQ: Hardware Efficient Flexible Binary-Coded Quantization for Multi-Precision LLMs
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

QeRL: Beyond Efficiency -- Quantization-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

F-BFQ: Flexible Block Floating-Point Quantization Accelerator for LLMs
ISCA 2025 Workshop [Paper]

Learning Grouped Lattice Vector Quantizers for Low-Bit LLM Compression
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

A Convergence Analysis of Adaptive Optimizers under Floating-point Quantization
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

FALQON: Accelerating LoRA Fine-tuning with Low-Bit Floating-Point Arithmetic
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

TetraJet-v2: Accurate NVFP4 Training for Large Language Models with Oscillation Suppression and Outlier Control
ICML 2026 [Paper]

DartQuant: Efficient Rotational Distribution Calibration for LLM Quantization
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

You Had One Job: Per-Task Quantization Using LLMs' Hidden Representations
ICML 2026 Workshop [Paper]

P3-LLM: An Integrated NPU-PIM Accelerator for Edge LLM Inference Using Hybrid Numerical Formats
ISCA 2026 [Paper]

ParoQuant: Pairwise Rotation Quantization for Efficient Reasoning LLM Inference
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

SpecQuant: Spectral Decomposition and Adaptive Truncation for Ultra-Low-Bit LLMs Quantization
AAAI 2026 [Paper]

T-SAR: A Full-Stack Co-design for CPU-Only Ternary LLM Inference via In-Place SIMD ALU Reorganization
DATE 2026 [Paper]

Enhancing Trustworthiness with Mixed Precision: Benchmarks, Opportunities, and Challenges
ASP-DAC 2026 [Paper]

SignRoundV2: Toward Closing the Performance Gap in Extremely Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

CodeGEMM: A Codebook-Centric Approach to Efficient GEMM in Quantized LLMs
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

FlightLLM: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with a Complete Mapping Flow on FPGA
FPGA 2024 [Paper]

Extreme Compression of Large Language Models via Additive Quantization
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Quantized Side Tuning: Fast and Memory-Efficient Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Inferflow: an Efficient and Highly Configurable Inference Engine for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-Centric Algorithm-System Co-Design
USENIX ATC 2024 [Paper]

Can Large Language Models Understand Context?
EACL Findings 2024 [Paper]

Squat: Quant Small Language Models on the Edge
ICCAD 2025 [Paper] [Code]

LQER: Low-Rank Quantization Error Reconstruction for LLMs
ICML 2024 [Paper]

BiLLM: Pushing the Limit of Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

QuIP#: Even Better LLM Quantization with Hadamard Incoherence and Lattice Codebooks
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

L4Q: Parameter Efficient Quantization-Aware Training on Large Language Models via LoRA-wise LSQ
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

TP-Aware Dequantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

ApiQ: Finetuning of 2-Bit Quantized Large Language Model
EMNLP 2024 [Paper]

Accurate LoRA-Finetuning Quantization of LLMs via Information Retention
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

BitDelta: Your Fine-Tune May Only Be Worth One Bit
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

QDyLoRA: Quantized Dynamic Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Large Language Model Tuning
EMNLP 2024 Industry Track [Paper]

Any-Precision LLM: Low-Cost Deployment of Multiple, Different-Sized LLMs
ICML 2024 [Paper]

BitDistiller: Unleashing the Potential of Sub-4-Bit LLMs via Self-Distillation
ACL 2024 [Paper] [Code]

OneBit: Towards Extremely Low-bit Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

DB-LLM: Accurate Dual-Binarization for Efficient LLMs
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper]

WKVQuant: Quantizing Weight and Key/Value Cache for Large Language Models Gains More
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

GPTVQ: The Blessing of Dimensionality for LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

APTQ: Attention-aware Post-Training Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models
DAC 2024 [Paper]

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Quantization Strategies for Large Language Models
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper]

Evaluating Quantized Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

FlattenQuant: Breaking Through the Inference Compute-bound for Large Language Models with Per-tensor Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LLM-PQ: Serving LLM on Heterogeneous Clusters with Phase-Aware Partition and Adaptive Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

IntactKV: Improving Large Languagze Model Quantization by Keeping Pivot Tokens Intact
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

On the Compressibility of Quantized Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

EasyQuant: An Efficient Data-free Quantization Algorithm for LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

What Makes Quantization for Large Language Models Hard? An Empirical Study from the Lens of Perturbation
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

AffineQuant: Affine Transformation Quantization for Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Oh! We Freeze: Improving Quantized Knowledge Distillation via Signal Propagation Analysis for Large Language Models
ICLR Practical ML for Low Resource Settings Workshop 2024 [Paper]

Accurate Block Quantization in LLMs with Outliers
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

QuaRot: Outlier-Free 4-Bit Inference in Rotated LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Minimize Quantization Output Error with Bias Compensation
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Cherry on Top: Parameter Heterogeneity and Quantization in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Fine-Tuning, Quantization, and LLMs: Navigating Unintended Outcomes
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Quantization of Large Language Models with an Overdetermined Basis
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

An empirical study of LLaMA3 quantization: from LLMs to MLLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

How to Parameterize Asymmetric Quantization Ranges for Quantization-Aware Training
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Mitigating the Impact of Outlier Channels for Language Model Quantization with Activation Regularization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

When Quantization Affects Confidence of Large Language Models?
NAACL 2024 [Paper]

QServe: W4A8KV4 Quantization and System Co-design for Efficient LLM Serving
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Learning from Students: Applying t-Distributions to Explore Accurate and Efficient Formats for LLMs
ICML 2024 [Paper]

LLMC: Benchmarking Large Language Model Quantization with a Versatile Compression Toolkit
EMNLP 2024 [Paper] [Code]

SKVQ: Sliding-window Key and Value Cache Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Post Training Quantization of Large Language Models with Microscaling Formats
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Edge Intelligence Optimization for Large Language Model Inference with Batching and Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

SliM-LLM: Salience-Driven Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

OAC: Output-adaptive Calibration for Accurate Post-training Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

PV-Tuning: Beyond Straight-Through Estimation for Extreme LLM Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

SpinQuant -- LLM quantization with learned rotations
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

Compressing Large Language Models using Low Rank and Low Precision Decomposition
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Athena: Efficient Block-Wise Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models Using Second-Order Matrix Derivative Information
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Exploiting LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

One QuantLLM for ALL: Fine-tuning Quantized LLMs Once for Efficient Deployments
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LCQ: Low-Rank Codebook based Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LoQT: Low Rank Adapters for Quantized Training
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

CLAQ: Pushing the Limits of Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

I-LLM: Efficient Integer-Only Inference for Fully-Quantized Low-Bit Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Outliers and Calibration Sets have Diminishing Effect on Quantization of Modern LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

DuQuant: Distributing Outliers via Dual Transformation Makes Stronger Quantized LLMs
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

ShiftAddLLM: Accelerating Pretrained LLMs via Post-Training Multiplication-Less Reparameterization
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Low-Rank Quantization-Aware Training for LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

TernaryLLM: Ternarized Large Language Model
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Examining Post-Training Quantization for Mixture-of-Experts: A Benchmark
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Delta-CoMe: Training-Free Delta-Compression with Mixed-Precision for Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

QQQ: Quality Quattuor-Bit Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

QTIP: Quantization with Trellises and Incoherence Processing
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Prefixing Attention Sinks can Mitigate Activation Outliers for Large Language Model Quantization
EMNLP 2024 [Paper]

Mixture of Scales: Memory-Efficient Token-Adaptive Binarization for Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

Tender: Accelerating Large Language Models via Tensor Decomposition and Runtime Requantization
ISCA 2024 [Paper]

SDQ: Sparse Decomposed Quantization for LLM Inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Attention-aware Post-training Quantization without Backpropagation
ICML 2025 [Paper]

EDGE-LLM: Enabling Efficient Large Language Model Adaptation on Edge Devices via Layerwise Unified Compression and Adaptive Layer Tuning and Voting
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Compensate Quantization Errors: Make Weights Hierarchical to Compensate Each Other
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Layer-Wise Quantization: A Pragmatic and Effective Method for Quantizing LLMs Beyond Integer Bit-Levels
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

CDQuant: Greedy Coordinate Descent for Accurate LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

OutlierTune: Efficient Channel-Wise Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

T-MAC: CPU Renaissance via Table Lookup for Low-Bit LLM Deployment on Edge
EuroSys 2025 [Paper] [Code]

GPTQT: Quantize Large Language Models Twice to Push the Efficiency
ICORIS 2024 [Paper]

Improving Conversational Abilities of Quantized Large Language Models via Direct Preference Alignment
ACL 2024 [Paper]

How Does Quantization Affect Multilingual LLMs?
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper]

RoLoRA: Fine-tuning Rotated Outlier-free LLMs for Effective Weight-Activation Quantization
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Q-GaLore: Quantized GaLore with INT4 Projection and Layer-Adaptive Low-Rank Gradients
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-precision
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Accuracy is Not All You Need
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

BitNet b1.58 Reloaded: State-of-the-art Performance Also on Smaller Networks
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LeanQuant: Accurate Large Language Model Quantization with Loss-Error-Aware Grid
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

Fast Matrix Multiplications for Lookup Table-Quantized LLMs
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

EfficientQAT: Efficient Quantization-Aware Training for Large Language Models
ACL 2025 [Paper] [Code]

LRQ: Optimizing Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models by Learning Low-Rank Weight-Scaling Matrices
NAACL 2025 [Paper]

Exploring Quantization for Efficient Pre-Training of Transformer Language Models
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Spectra: Surprising Effectiveness of Pretraining Ternary Language Models at Scale
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Mamba-PTQ: Outlier Channels in Recurrent Large Language Models
Efficient Systems for Foundation Models Workshop @ ICML 2024 [Paper]

Compensate Quantization Errors+: Quantized Models Are Inquisitive Learners
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Accurate and Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models Through Optimal Balance
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

STBLLM: Breaking the 1-Bit Barrier with Structured Binary LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models with Quantization-Aware Scale Learning for Efficient Adaptation
ACM MM 2024 [Paper]

ABQ-LLM: Arbitrary-Bit Quantized Inference Acceleration for Large Language Models
AAAI 2025 [Paper]

MARLIN: Mixed-Precision Auto-Regressive Parallel Inference on Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code (Marlin)] [Code (Sparse Marlin)]

Matmul or No Matmal in the Era of 1-bit LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

MobileQuant: Mobile-friendly Quantization for On-device Language Models
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

GIFT-SW: Gaussian noise Injected Fine-Tuning of Salient Weights for LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Foundations of Large Language Model Compression -- Part 1: Weight Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

OPAL: Outlier-Preserved Microscaling Quantization A ccelerator for Generative Large Language Models
DAC 2024 [Paper]

VPTQ: Extreme Low-bit Vector Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
EMNLP 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Scaling FP8 training to trillion-token LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Accumulator-Aware Post-Training Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Efficient Arbitrary Precision Acceleration for Large Language Models on GPU Tensor Cores
ASP-DAC 2025 [Paper]

Rotated Runtime Smooth: Training-Free Activation Smoother for accurate INT4 inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

EXAQ: Exponent Aware Quantization For LLMs Acceleration
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

ARB-LLM: Alternating Refined Binarizations for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

PrefixQuant: Eliminating Outliers by Prefixed Tokens for Large Language Models Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Sketch to Adapt: Fine-Tunable Sketches for Efficient LLM Adaptation
ICML 2025 [Paper]

Scaling Laws For Mixed Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Q-VLM: Post-training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

CrossQuant: A Post-Training Quantization Method with Smaller Quantization Kernel for Precise Large Language Model Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

FlatQuant: Flatness Matters for LLM Quantization
ICML 2025 [Paper] [Code]

DeltaDQ: Ultra-High Delta Compression for Fine-Tuned LLMs via Group-wise Dropout and Separate Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

QEFT: Quantization for Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Continuous Approximations for Improving Quantization Aware Training of LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

DAQ: Density-Aware Post-Training Weight-Only Quantization For LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

COMET: Towards Partical W4A4KV4 LLMs Serving
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Scaling laws for post-training quantized large language models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Channel-Wise Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Understanding the difficulty of low-precision post-training quantization of large language models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

QuAILoRA: Quantization-Aware Initialization for LoRA
NeurIPS Workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-IV) 2024 [Paper]

SDP4Bit: Toward 4-bit Communication Quantization in Sharded Data Parallelism for LLM Training
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

Pyramid Vector Quantization for LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

TesseraQ: Ultra Low-Bit LLM Post-Training Quantization with Block Reconstruction
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

COAT: Compressing Optimizer states and Activation for Memory-Efficient FP8 Training
ICLR 2025 [Paper] [Code]

GWQ: Gradient-Aware Weight Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

"Give Me BF16 or Give Me Death"? Accuracy-Performance Trade-Offs in LLM Quantization
ACL 2025 [Paper]

Interactions Across Blocks in Post-Training Quantization of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

BitNet a4.8: 4-bit Activations for 1-bit LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

The Super Weight in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

ASER: Activation Smoothing and Error Reconstruction for Large Language Model Quantization
AAAI 2025 [Paper]

Towards Low-bit Communication for Tensor Parallel LLM Inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

AMXFP4: Taming Activation Outliers with Asymmetric Microscaling Floating-Point for 4-bit LLM Inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Scaling Laws for Precision
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

BitMoD: Bit-serial Mixture-of-Datatype LLM Acceleration
HPCA 2025 [Paper] [Code]

SageAttention2: Efficient Attention with Thorough Outlier Smoothing and Per-thread INT4 Quantization
ICML 2025 [Paper] [Code]

AutoMixQ: Self-Adjusting Quantization for High Performance Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Anda: Unlocking Efficient LLM Inference with a Variable-Length Grouped Activation Data Format
HPCA 2025 [Paper]

MixPE: Quantization and Hardware Co-design for Efficient LLM Inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Pushing the Limits of Large Language Model Quantization via the Linearity Theorem
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Low-Bit Quantization Favors Undertrained LLMs: Scaling Laws for Quantized LLMs with 100T Training Tokens
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Models]

DFRot: Achieving Outlier-Free and Massive Activation-Free for Rotated LLMs with Refined Rotation
COLM 2025 [Paper] [Code]

RILQ: Rank-Insensitive LoRA-based Quantization Error Compensation for Boosting 2-bit Large Language Model Accuracy
AAAI 2025 [Paper]

CPTQuant -- A Novel Mixed Precision Post-Training Quantization Techniques for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

SKIM: Any-bit Quantization Pushing The Limits of Post-Training Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Direct Quantized Training of Language Models with Stochastic Rounding
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Taming Sensitive Weights : Noise Perturbation Fine-tuning for Robust LLM Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Low-Rank Correction for Quantized LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

CRVQ: Channel-relaxed Vector Quantization for Extreme Compression of LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

ResQ: Mixed-Precision Quantization of Large Language Models with Low-Rank Residuals
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

MixLLM: LLM Quantization with Global Mixed-precision between Output-features and Highly-efficient System Design
MLSys 2026 [Paper]

GQSA: Group Quantization and Sparsity for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LSAQ: Layer-Specific Adaptive Quantization for Large Language Model Deployment
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

DecDEC: A Systems Approach to Advancing Low-Bit LLM Quantization
OSDI 2025 [Paper]

FlexRound: Learnable Rounding based on Element-wise Division for Post-Training Quantization
ICML 2023 [Paper] [Code (DeepSpeed)]

Understanding INT4 Quantization for Transformer Models: Latency Speedup, Composability, and Failure Cases
ICML 2023 [Paper] [Code]

The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
ICML 2023 [Paper]

PreQuant: A Task-agnostic Quantization Approach for Pre-trained Language Models
ACL 2023 [Paper]

Boost Transformer-based Language Models with GPU-Friendly Sparsity and Quantization
ACL 2023 [Paper]

QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

The Quantization Model of Neural Scaling
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper]

Quantized Distributed Training of Large Models with Convergence Guarantees
ICML 2023 [Paper]

RPTQ: Reorder-based Post-training Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

ZeroQuant-V2: Exploring Post-training Quantization in LLMs from Comprehensive Study to Low Rank Compensation
AAAI 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Integer or Floating Point? New Outlooks for Low-Bit Quantization on Large Language Models
ICML 2024 [Paper]

Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compressed Large Language Models via sub-4-bit Integer Quantization
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper]

Compress, Then Prompt: Improving Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-off of LLM Inference with Transferable Prompt
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration
MLSys 2024 (Best Paper 🏆) [Paper] [Code]

LLM-QAT: Data-Free Quantization Aware Training for Large Language Models
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

OWQ: Outlier-Aware Weight Quantization for Efficient Fine-Tuning and Inference of Large Language Models
AAAI 2024 [Paper]

SqueezeLLM: Dense-and-Sparse Quantization
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

INT2.1: Towards Fine-Tunable Quantized Large Language Models with Error Correction through Low-Rank Adaptation
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

LQ-LoRA: Low-rank Plus Quantized Matrix Decomposition for Efficient Language Model Finetuning
ICLR 2024 [Paper]

INT-FP-QSim: Mixed Precision and Formats For Large Language Models and Vision Transformers
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

QIGen: Generating Efficient Kernels for Quantized Inference on Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Do Emergent Abilities Exist in Quantized Large Language Models: An Empirical Study
COLING 2024 [Paper]

ZeroQuant-FP: A Leap Forward in LLMs Post-Training W4A8 Quantization Using Floating-Point Formats
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code (DeepSpeed)]

OliVe: Accelerating Large Language Models via Hardware-friendly Outlier-Victim Pair Quantization
ISCA 2023 [Paper]

NUPES : Non-Uniform Post-Training Quantization via Power Exponent Search
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

GPT-Zip: Deep Compression of Finetuned Large Language Models
ICML 2023 Workshop ES-FoMO [Paper]

Generating Efficient Kernels for Quantized Inference on Large Language Models
ICML 2023 Workshop ES-FoMO [Paper]

Gradient-Based Post-Training Quantization: Challenging the Status Quo
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

FineQuant: Unlocking Efficiency with Fine-Grained Weight-Only Quantization for LLMs
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

OmniQuant: Omnidirectionally Calibrated Quantization for Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

FPTQ: Fine-grained Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

eDKM: An Efficient and Accurate Train-time Weight Clustering for Large Language Models
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2023 [Paper]

QuantEase: Optimization-based Quantization for Language Models -- An Efficient and Intuitive Algorithm
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Norm Tweaking: High-performance Low-bit Quantization of Large Language Models
AAAI 2024 [Paper]

Understanding the Impact of Post-Training Quantization on Large-scale Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

MEMORY-VQ: Compression for Tractable Internet-Scale Memory
NAACL 2024 [Paper]

Optimize Weight Rounding via Signed Gradient Descent for the Quantization of LLMs
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Efficient Post-training Quantization with FP8 Formats
MLSys 2024 [Paper] [Code (Intel® Neural Compressor)]

QA-LoRA: Quantization-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

ModuLoRA: Finetuning 3-Bit LLMs on Consumer GPUs by Integrating with Modular Quantizers
TMLR (Featured Certification 🌟) [Paper]

PB-LLM: Partially Binarized Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Dual Grained Quantization: Efficient Fine-Grained Quantization for LLM
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

QFT: Quantized Full-parameter Tuning of LLMs with Affordable Resources
ICLR 2026 Workshop [Paper]

TEQ: Trainable Equivalent Transformation for Quantization of LLMs
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code (Intel® Neural Compressor)]

BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

FP8-LM: Training FP8 Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

QUIK: Towards End-to-End 4-Bit Inference on Generative Large Language Models
EMNLP 2024 [Paper] [Code]

AFPQ: Asymmetric Floating Point Quantization for LLMs
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

AWEQ: Post-Training Quantization with Activation-Weight Equalization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Atom: Low-bit Quantization for Efficient and Accurate LLM Serving
MLSys 2024 [Paper] [Code]

QMoE: Practical Sub-1-Bit Compression of Trillion-Parameter Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Dissecting the Runtime Performance of the Training, Fine-tuning, and Inference of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

On the Impact of Calibration Data in Post-training Quantization and Pruning
ACL 2024 [Paper]

A Speed Odyssey for Deployable Quantization of LLMs
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Fast and Efficient 2-bit LLM Inference on GPU: 2/4/16-bit in a Weight Matrix with Asynchronous Dequantization
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Quantizable Transformers: Removing Outliers by Helping Attention Heads Do Nothing
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Efficient LLM Inference on CPUs
NeurIPS 2023 on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing [Paper] [Code]

The Cost of Compression: Investigating the Impact of Compression on Parametric Knowledge in Language Models
EMNLP Findings 2023 [Paper]

Zero-Shot Sharpness-Aware Quantization for Pre-trained Language Models
EMNLP 2023 [Paper]

Revisiting Block-based Quantisation: What is Important for Sub-8-bit LLM Inference?
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Outlier Suppression+: Accurate quantization of large language models by equivalent and optimal shifting and scaling
EMNLP 2023 [Paper]

Watermarking LLMs with Weight Quantization
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Enhancing Computation Efficiency in Large Language Models through Weight and Activation Quantization
EMNLP 2023 [Paper]

LLM-FP4: 4-Bit Floating-Point Quantized Transformers
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Agile-Quant: Activation-Guided Quantization for Faster Inference of LLMs on the Edge
AAAI 2024 [Paper]

SmoothQuant+: Accurate and Efficient 4-bit Post-Training WeightQuantization for LLM
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

CBQ: Cross-Block Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

ZeroQuant(4+2): Redefining LLMs Quantization with a New FP6-Centric Strategy for Diverse Generative Tasks
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

QuIP: 2-Bit Quantization of Large Language Models With Guarantees
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

A Performance Evaluation of a Quantized Large Language Model on Various Smartphones
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

DeltaZip: Efficient Serving of Multiple Full-Model-Tuned LLMs
EuroSys 2025 [Paper] [Code]

ZeroQuant: Efficient and Affordable Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers
NeurIPS 2022 [Paper] [Code (DeepSpeed)]

LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
NeurIPS 2022 [Paper] [Code]

Outlier Suppression: Pushing the Limit of Low-bit Transformer Language Models
NeurIPS 2022 [Paper] [Code]

LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper]

SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
ICML 2023 [Paper] [Code]

GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers
ICLR 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Adaptive Layer Selection for Layer-Wise Token Pruning in LLM Inference
ACL Findings 2026 [Paper] [Code]

LLMs can Compress LLMs: Adaptive Pruning by Agents
Arxiv 2026 [Paper]

Streaming-dLLM: Accelerating Diffusion LLMs via Suffix Pruning and Dynamic Decoding
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

GradPruner: Gradient-Guided Layer Pruning Enabling Efficient Fine-Tuning and Inference for LLMs
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

FASA: Frequency-aware Sparse Attention
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Compressing LLMs with MoP: Mixture of Pruners
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Pruning as a Cooperative Game: Surrogate-Assisted Layer Contribution Estimation for Large Language Models
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Sink-Aware Pruning for Diffusion Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Curvature-Weighted Capacity Allocation: A Minimum Description Length Framework for Layer-Adaptive Large Language Model Optimization
UAI 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Sparse-BitNet: 1.58-bit LLMs are Naturally Friendly to Semi-Structured Sparsity
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Stem: Rethinking Causal Information Flow in Sparse Attention
ICML 2026 [Paper]

High-Fidelity Pruning for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Sparser, Faster, Lighter Transformer Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

REAM: Merging Improves Pruning of Experts in LLMs
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

GRASPrune: Global Gating for Budgeted Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
ACL 2026 [Paper]

Revisiting the Effectiveness of LLM Pruning for Test-Time Scaling
EMNLP Findings 2026 [Paper]

Compute Where it Counts: Self Optimizing Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Ghosted Layers: Unconstrained Activation Alignment for Recovering Layer-Pruned LLMs
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

LEAP: Learnable End-to-End Adaptive Pruning of Large Language Models
ICML 2026 Workshop [Paper]

Efficient Long-Context Modeling in Diffusion Language Models via Block Approximate Sparse Attention
CVPR 2026 [Paper]

Locality-Aware Redundancy Pruning for LLM Depth Compression
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

FlashMemory-DeepSeek-V4: Lightning Index Ultra-Long Context via Lookahead Sparse Attention
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Beyond FLOPs: Benchmarking Real Inference Acceleration of LLM Pruning under a GEMM-Centric Taxonomy
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Persona-Pruner: Sculpting Lightweight Models for Role-Playing
ICML 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Dustin: Draft-Augmented Sparse Verification for Efficient Long-Context Generation with Speculative Decoding
ICML 2026 [Paper]

EPTS: Elastic Post-Training Sparsity for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
KDD 2026 [Paper]

Super-Tuning: From Activation-Aware Pruning to Sparse Fine-Tuning
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

WIDE: Boosting Adaptive LLM Inference via Token-level Dynamic Width Pruning
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Celty: SpMspV GPU Kernel and SIMT Co-Design for Efficient Dual-Sparse LLM Inference
ICCAD 2026 [Paper] [Code]

The Sparsity Whisperer
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Prune Once: Retraining-Free Task-Agnostic Pruning for Vision-Language Models
ECCV 2026 [Paper]

Router Sensitivity Under Lightweight Fine-Tuning Identifies Prunable Experts in Mixture-of-Experts Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Reservoir of Importance: Learning Semi-Structured Sparsity with Differentiable Subset Sampling
EMNLP 2026 [Paper]

FASP: Fast and Accurate Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

MultiPruner: Balanced Structure Removal in Foundation Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Mamba-Shedder: Post-Transformer Compression for Efficient Selective Structured State Space Models
NAACL 2025 [Paper] [Code]

2SSP: A Two-Stage Framework for Structured Pruning of LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

You Only Prune Once: Designing Calibration-Free Model Compression With Policy Learning
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

SwiftPrune: Hessian-Free Weight Pruning for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Pivoting Factorization: A Compact Meta Low-Rank Representation of Sparsity for Efficient Inference in Large Language Models
ICML 2025 [Paper]

Twilight: Adaptive Attention Sparsity with Hierarchical Top-p Pruning
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

Adapt-Pruner: Adaptive Structural Pruning for Efficient Small Language Model Training
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Dobi-SVD: Differentiable SVD for LLM Compression and Some New Perspectives
ICLR 2025 [Paper] [Homepage]

EfficientLLM: Scalable Pruning-Aware Pretraining for Architecture-Agnostic Edge Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

DarwinLM: Evolutionary Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
COLM 2026 [Paper]

MaskPrune: Mask-based LLM Pruning for Layer-wise Uniform Structures
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Determining Layer-wise Sparsity for Large Language Models Through a Theoretical Perspective
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

PPC-GPT: Federated Task-Specific Compression of Large Language Models via Pruning and Chain-of-Thought Distillation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Compression Scaling Laws: Unifying Sparsity and Quantization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

PASER: Post-Training Data Selection for Efficient Pruned Large Language Model Recovery
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Týr-the-Pruner: Unlocking Accurate 50% Structural Pruning for LLMs via Global Sparsity Distribution Optimization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Thanos: A Block-wise Pruning Algorithm for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Efficient LLMs with AMP: Attention Heads and MLP Pruning
IJCNN 2025 [Paper]

ReplaceMe: Network Simplification via Layer Pruning and Linear Transformations
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Large Language Model Compression with Global Rank and Sparsity Optimization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

TRIM: Achieving Extreme Sparsity with Targeted Row-wise Iterative Metric-driven Pruning
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

RAP: Runtime-Adaptive Pruning for LLM Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Two-Stage Regularization-Based Structured Pruning for LLMs
ACL 2026 [Paper]

Pangu Light: Weight Re-Initialization for Pruning and Accelerating LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Sparsified State-Space Models are Efficient Highway Networks
TMLR 2025 [Paper] [Code]

SDMPrune: Self-Distillation MLP Pruning for Efficient Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Amber Pruner: Leveraging N:M Activation Sparsity for Efficient Prefill in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Beyond Manually Designed Pruning Policies with Second-Level Performance Prediction: A Pruning Framework for LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Pruning Large Language Models by Identifying and Preserving Functional Networks
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

SlimInfer: Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference via Dynamic Token Pruning
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

EGGS-PTP: An Expander-Graph Guided Structured Post-training Pruning Method for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Z-Pruner: Post-Training Pruning of Large Language Models for Efficiency without Retraining
AICCSA 2025 [Paper] [Code]

H2EAL: Hybrid-Bonding Architecture with Hybrid Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
ICCAD 2025 [Paper]

Less Is More? Examining Fairness in Pruned Large Language Models for Summarising Opinions
EMNLP 2025 [Paper] [Code]

DualSparse-MoE: Coordinating Tensor/Neuron-Level Sparsity with Expert Partition and Reconstruction
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Optimal Sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts Language Models for Reasoning Tasks
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Spatio-Temporal Pruning for Compressed Spiking Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Dropping Experts, Recombining Neurons: Retraining-Free Pruning for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
EMNLP 2025 [Paper]

Reasoning Models Can be Accurately Pruned Via Chain-of-Thought Reconstruction
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

NIRVANA: Structured Pruning Reimagined for Large Language Model Compression
COLM 2026 [Paper]

HEAPr: Hessian-based Efficient Atomic Expert Pruning in Output Space
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

ProxyAttn: Guided Sparse Attention via Representative Heads
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Effective Model Pruning: Measure The Redundancy of Model Components
ICML 2026 [Paper]

The Unseen Frontier: Pushing the Limits of LLM Sparsity with Surrogate-Free ADMM
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

RCPU: Rotation-Constrained Error Compensation for Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Fewer Weights, More Problems: A Practical Attack on LLM Pruning
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

From Local to Global: Revisiting Structured Pruning Paradigms for Large Language Models
ACL 2026 [Paper]

Sparser Block-Sparse Attention via Token Permutation
ICML 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Restoring Pruned Large Language Models via Lost Component Compensation
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

When Fewer Layers Break More Chains: Layer Pruning Harms Test-Time Scaling in LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

1+1>2: A Synergistic Sparse and Low-Rank Compression Method for Large Language Models
EMNLP Findings 2025 [Paper]

SpecAttn: Speculating Sparse Attention
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop [Paper]

IG-Pruning: Input-Guided Block Pruning for Large Language Models
EMNLP 2025 [Paper] [Code]

MACKO: Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication for Low Sparsity
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Understanding and Harnessing Sparsity in Unified Multimodal Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Resting Neurons, Active Insights: Robustifying Activation Sparsity in LLMs via Spontaneity
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Fragile Knowledge, Robust Instruction-Following: The Width Pruning Dichotomy in Llama-3.2
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Plug-and-Play: An Efficient Post-training Pruning Method for Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Fast and Optimal Weight Update for Pruned Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

APT: Adaptive Pruning and Tuning Pretrained Language Models for Efficient Training and Inference
ICML 2024 [Paper]

Scaling Sparse Fine-Tuning to Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

SliceGPT: Compress Large Language Models by Deleting Rows and Columns
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Shortened LLaMA: Depth Pruning for Large Language Models with Comparison of Retraining Methods
ICLR 2024 Workshop [Paper]

Everybody Prune Now: Structured Pruning of LLMs with only Forward Passes
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

NutePrune: Efficient Progressive Pruning with Numerous Teachers for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LaCo: Large Language Model Pruning via Layer Collapse
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper]

Why Lift so Heavy? Slimming Large Language Models by Cutting Off the Layers
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

EBFT: Effective and Block-Wise Fine-Tuning for Sparse LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Data-free Weight Compress and Denoise for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Gradient-Free Adaptive Global Pruning for Pre-trained Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LLaVA-PruMerge: Adaptive Token Reduction for Efficient Large Multimodal Models
ICCV 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Streamlining Redundant Layers to Compress Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LoRAP: Transformer Sub-Layers Deserve Differentiated Structured Compression for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LoNAS: Elastic Low-Rank Adapters for Efficient Large Language Models
COLING 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Shears: Unstructured Sparsity with Neural Low-rank Adapter Search
NAACL 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Eigenpruning: an Interpretability-Inspired PEFT Method
NAACL 2024 Abstract [Paper]

OpenBA-V2: Reaching 77.3% High Compression Ratio with Fast Multi-Stage Pruning
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Pruning as a Domain-specific LLM Extractor
NAACL 2024 Findings [Paper] [Code]

Differentiable Model Scaling using Differentiable Topk
ICML 2024 [Paper]

COPAL: Continual Pruning in Large Language Generative Models
ICML 2024 [Paper]

Pruner-Zero: Evolving Symbolic Pruning Metric from scratch for Large Language Models
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Feature-based Low-Rank Compression of Large Language Models via Bayesian Optimization
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper]

Surgical Feature-Space Decomposition of LLMs: Why, When and How?
ACL 2024 [Paper]

Pruning Large Language Models to Intra-module Low-rank Architecture with Transitional Activations
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper]

Light-PEFT: Lightening Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Early Pruning
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Quest: Query-Aware Sparsity for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

MoreauPruner: Robust Pruning of Large Language Models against Weight Perturbations
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

ALPS: Improved Optimization for Highly Sparse One-Shot Pruning for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Training-free Sub-quadratic Cost Transformer Model Serving Framework With Hierarchically Pruned Attention
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Bypass Back-propagation: Optimization-based Structural Pruning for Large Language Models via Policy Gradient
ACL 2025 [Paper]

BlockPruner: Fine-grained Pruning for Large Language Models
ACL Findings 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Rethinking Pruning Large Language Models: Benefits and Pitfalls of Reconstruction Error Minimization
EMNLP 2024 [Paper]

RankAdaptor: Hierarchical Rank Allocation for Efficient Fine-Tuning Pruned LLMs via Performance Model
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

What Matters in Transformers? Not All Attention is Needed
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Pruning via Merging: Compressing LLMs via Manifold Alignment Based Layer Merging
EMNLP 2024 [Paper]

ShadowLLM: Predictor-based Contextual Sparsity for Large Language Models
EMNLP 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Finding Transformer Circuits with Edge Pruning
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Efficient Expert Pruning for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Language Models: Enhancing Performance and Reducing Inference Costs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

MINI-LLM: Memory-Efficient Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Reconstruct the Pruned Model without Any Retraining
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A deeper look at depth pruning of LLMs
ICML TF2M Workshop 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Greedy Output Approximation: Towards Efficient Structured Pruning for LLMs Without Retraining
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Pruning Large Language Models with Semi-Structural Adaptive Sparse Training
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

A Convex-optimization-based Layer-wise Post-training Pruner for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

ThinK: Thinner Key Cache by Query-Driven Pruning
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

MoDeGPT: Modular Decomposition for Large Language Model Compression
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

LLM-Barber: Block-Aware Rebuilder for Sparsity Mask in One-Shot for Large Language Models
ICCAD 2025 [Paper] [Code]

LLM Pruning and Distillation in Practice: The Minitron Approach
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Models]

Training-Free Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

Enhancing One-shot Pruned Pre-trained Language Models through Sparse-Dense-Sparse Mechanism
COLING 2025 [Paper]

PAT: Pruning-Aware Tuning for Large Language Models
AAAI 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Sirius: Contextual Sparsity with Correction for Efficient LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

STUN: Structured-Then-Unstructured Pruning for Scalable MoE Pruning
ACL 2025 [Paper]

DISP-LLM: Dimension-Independent Structural Pruning for Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

Search for Efficient Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

SlimGPT: Layer-wise Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

Learn To be Efficient: Build Structured Sparsity in Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

ALS: Adaptive Layer Sparsity for Large Language Models via Activation Correlation Assessment
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

Getting Free Bits Back from Rotational Symmetries in LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

SLiM: One-shot Quantization and Sparsity with Low-rank Approximation for LLM Weight Compression
ICML 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Self-Data Distillation for Recovering Quality in Pruned Large Language Models
MLSys 2025 [Paper]

EvoPress: Towards Optimal Dynamic Model Compression via Evolutionary Search
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Pruning Foundation Models for High Accuracy without Retraining
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Beware of Calibration Data for Pruning Large Language Models
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

SQFT: Low-cost Model Adaptation in Low-precision Sparse Foundation Models
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Change Is the Only Constant: Dynamic LLM Slicing based on Layer Redundancy
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Zeroth-Order Adaptive Neuron Alignment Based Pruning without Retraining
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Scaling Law for Post-training after Model Pruning
ACL 2025 [Paper]

LEMON: Reviving Stronger and Smaller LMs from Larger LMs with Linear Parameter Fusion
ACL 2024 [Paper]

TrimLLM: Progressive Layer Dropping for Domain-Specific LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

FTP: A Fine-grained Token-wise Pruner for Large Language Models via Token Routing
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Activation Sparsity Opportunities for Compressing General Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

FineGates: LLMs Finetuning with Compression using Stochastic Gates
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

The Lazy Neuron Phenomenon: On Emergence of Activation Sparsity in Transformers
ICLR 2023 [Paper]

Deja Vu: Contextual Sparsity for Efficient LLMs at Inference Time
ICML 2023 [Paper] [Code]

LoSparse: Structured Compression of Large Language Models based on Low-Rank and Sparse Approximation
ICML 2023 [Paper] [Code]

LLM-Pruner: On the Structural Pruning of Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

ZipLM: Inference-Aware Structured Pruning of Language Models
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

H2O: Heavy-Hitter Oracle for Efficient Generative Inference of Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

The Emergence of Essential Sparsity in Large Pre-trained Models: The Weights that Matter
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Learning to Compress Prompts with Gist Tokens
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper]

Dynamic Context Pruning for Efficient and Interpretable Autoregressive Transformers
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper]

Prune and Tune: Improving Efficient Pruning Techniques for Massive Language Models
ICLR 2023 TinyPapers [Paper]

SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
ICML 2023 [Paper] [Code]

AdaLoRA: Adaptive Budget Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
ICLR 2023 [Paper]

Structured Pruning for Efficient Generative Pre-trained Language Models
ACL 2023 [Paper]

A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Pruning Meets Low-Rank Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper]

Structural pruning of large language models via neural architecture search
AutoML 2023 [Paper]

Pruning Large Language Models via Accuracy Predictor
ICASSP 2024 [Paper]

Flash-LLM: Enabling Cost-Effective and Highly-Efficient Large Generative Model Inference with Unstructured Sparsity
VLDB 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Compressing LLMs: The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple
ICLR 2024 [Paper]

Pruning Small Pre-Trained Weights Irreversibly and Monotonically Impairs "Difficult" Downstream Tasks in LLMs
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Compresso: Structured Pruning with Collaborative Prompting Learns Compact Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Outlier Weighed Layerwise Sparsity (OWL): A Missing Secret Sauce for Pruning LLMs to High Sparsity
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Sheared LLaMA: Accelerating Language Model Pre-training via Structured Pruning
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Dynamic Sparse No Training: Training-Free Fine-tuning for Sparse LLMs
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

One-Shot Sensitivity-Aware Mixed Sparsity Pruning for Large Language Models
ICASSP 2024 [Paper]

Survival of the Most Influential Prompts: Efficient Black-Box Prompt Search via Clustering and Pruning
EMNLP Findings 2023 [Paper]

The Cost of Compression: Investigating the Impact of Compression on Parametric Knowledge in Language Models
EMNLP Findings 2023 [Paper]

Divergent Token Metrics: Measuring degradation to prune away LLM components -- and optimize quantization
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

LoRAShear: Efficient Large Language Model Structured Pruning and Knowledge Recovery
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

ReLU Strikes Back: Exploiting Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

E-Sparse: Boosting the Large Language Model Inference through Entropy-based N:M Sparsity
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Beyond Size: How Gradients Shape Pruning Decisions in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

On the Impact of Calibration Data in Post-training Quantization and Pruning
ACL 2024 [Paper]

BESA: Pruning Large Language Models with Blockwise Parameter-Efficient Sparsity Allocation
OpenReview [Paper] [Code]

PUSHING GRADIENT TOWARDS ZERO: A NOVEL PRUNING METHOD FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
OpenReview 2023 [Paper]

Lighter, yet More Faithful: Investigating Hallucinations in Pruned Large Language Models for Abstractive Summarization
TACL 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Mini-GPTs: Efficient Large Language Models through Contextual Pruning
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

The LLM Surgeon
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Fluctuation-based Adaptive Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
AAAI 2024 [Paper]

How to Prune Your Language Model: Recovering Accuracy on the "Sparsity May Cry'' Benchmark
CPAL 2024 [Paper]

PERP: Rethinking the Prune-Retrain Paradigm in the Era of LLMs
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

d3LLM: Ultra-Fast Diffusion LLM using Pseudo-Trajectory Distillation
ICML 2026 [Paper]

RM-Distiller: Exploiting Generative LLM for Reward Model Distillation
ECAI 2026 [Paper]

Self-Distilled Reasoner: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Thinking Broad, Acting Fast: Latent Reasoning Distillation from Multi-Perspective Chain-of-Thought for E-Commerce Relevance
WWW 2026 [Paper]

Exploring Knowledge Purification in Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for LLMs
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

FutureMind: Equipping Small Language Models with Strategic Thinking-Pattern Priors via Adaptive Knowledge Distillation
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Making Expert Reasoning Learnable with Self-Distillation
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Pedagogically-Inspired Data Synthesis for Language Model Knowledge Distillation
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

BRIDGE: Bridging Reasoning In Distillation Gap Elimination via Structure-Aware Masking
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Surgical Post-Training: Proximal On-Policy Distillation for Reasoning with Knowledge Retention
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

KDFlow: A User-Friendly and Efficient Knowledge Distillation Framework for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Dual-Space Knowledge Distillation with Key-Query Matching for Large Language Models with Vocabulary Mismatch
ICASSP 2026 [Paper]

Why Does Self-Distillation (Sometimes) Degrade the Reasoning Capability of LLMs?
COLM 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Hybrid Policy Distillation for LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Turning the TIDE: Cross-Architecture Distillation for Diffusion Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

SRA: Span Representation Alignment for Large Language Model Distillation
ACL 2026 [Paper]

MTA: Multi-Granular Trajectory Alignment for Large Language Model Distillation
ACL 2026 [Paper]

UniSD: Towards a Unified Self-Distillation Framework for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Rubric-based On-policy Distillation
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Towards Resource-Efficient LLMs: End-to-End Energy Accounting of Distillation Pipelines
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Skill-Conditioned Gated Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning
EMNLP Findings 2026 [Paper] [Code]

PADD: Path-Aligned Decompression Distillation for Non-Router Teacher to Guide MoE Student Learning
ICML 2026 [Paper]

AsyncOPD: How Stale Can On-Policy Distillation Be?
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Token-level Response-visual Attention Guidance for Multimodal LLMs Knowledge Distillation
ECCV 2026 [Paper]

Answer-Conditioned Chains of Thought Degrade Verifiable-Reasoning Distillation in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

On-Policy Delta Distillation
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Mismatch Matters: On-Policy Distillation Beyond Token Agreement
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Thinking at the Right Size: Amortized Distillation Across Post-Trained LLMs
EMNLP Findings 2026 [Paper]

SelFusion: Self-distillation for Diffusion Language Models
ACL 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Chunk-Distilled Language Modeling
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Every Expert Matters: Towards Effective Knowledge Distillation for Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

TinyR1-32B-Preview: Boosting Accuracy with Branch-Merge Distillation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

UNDO: Understanding Distillation as Optimization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

A Token is Worth over 1,000 Tokens: Efficient Knowledge Distillation through Low-Rank Clone
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper] [Code]

SDMPrune: Self-Distillation MLP Pruning for Efficient Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Less is More: Selective Reflection for Compatible and Efficient Knowledge Distillation in Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Membership and Memorization in LLM Knowledge Distillation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Slow Tuning and Low-Entropy Masking for Safe Chain-of-Thought Distillation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Beyond Scaling Law: A Data-Efficient Distillation Framework for Reasoning
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Can Large Models Teach Student Models to Solve Mathematical Problems Like Human Beings? A Reasoning Distillation Method via Multi-LoRA Interaction
IJCAI 2025 [Paper]

Learning from Diverse Reasoning Paths with Routing and Collaboration
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Student-Centered Distillation Narrows the Agentic Gap Between Small and Large LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper]

ORPO-Distill: Mixed-Policy Preference Optimization for Cross-Architecture LLM Distillation
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop [Paper]

Distillation of Large Language Models via Concrete Score Matching
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

SpikingMamba: Towards Energy-Efficient Large Language Models via Knowledge Distillation from Mamba
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

The Valley of Code Reasoning: Scaling Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop [Paper]

AMiD: Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with $α$-mixture Assistant Distribution
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation of LLMs With Counterfactual Explanations
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

Two Heads are Better than One: Distilling Large Language Model Features Into Small Models with Feature Decomposition and Mixture
AAAI 2026 [Paper]

EM-KD: Distilling Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model with Unbalanced Vision Tokens
AAAI 2026 [Paper]

YODA: Teacher-Student Progressive Learning for Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Knowledge Fusion of Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Knowledge Distillation for Closed-Source Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Beyond Answers: Transferring Reasoning Capabilities to Smaller LLMs Using Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation
WSDM 2025 [Paper]

Towards Cross-Tokenizer Distillation: the Universal Logit Distillation Loss for LLMs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Revisiting Knowledge Distillation for Autoregressive Language Models
ACL 2024 [Paper]

Sinkhorn Distance Minimization for Knowledge Distillation
COLING 2024 [Paper]

Divide-or-Conquer? Which Part Should You Distill Your LLM?
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper]

Learning to Maximize Mutual Information for Chain-of-Thought Distillation
ACL 2024 Findings [Paper]

DistiLLM: Towards Streamlined Distillation for Large Language Models
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Efficiently Distilling LLMs for Edge Applications
NAACL 2024 [Paper]

Rethinking Kullback-Leibler Divergence in Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models
COLING 2025 [Paper]

Distilling Algorithmic Reasoning from LLMs via Explaining Solution Programs
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Direct Preference Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Dual-Space Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models
EMNLP 2024 [Paper] [Code]

DDK: Distilling Domain Knowledge for Efficient Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

LLM Pruning and Distillation in Practice: The Minitron Approach
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Models]

The Mamba in the Llama: Distilling and Accelerating Hybrid Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

DocKD: Knowledge Distillation from LLMs for Open-World Document Understanding Models
EMNLP 2024 [Paper]

SWITCH: Studying with Teacher for Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models
NAACL Findings 2025 [Paper]

Mentor-KD: Making Small Language Models Better Multi-step Reasoners
EMNLP 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Exploring and Enhancing the Transfer of Distribution in Knowledge Distillation for Autoregressive Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LLM-Neo: Parameter Efficient Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Enhancing Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with Response-Priming Prompting
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Feature Alignment-Based Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Compression of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Lillama: Large Language Models Compression via Low-Rank Feature Distillation
NAACL 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Multi-Level Optimal Transport for Universal Cross-Tokenizer Knowledge Distillation on Language Models
AAAI 2025 [Paper]

Lifting the Curse of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models
ACL 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Symbolic Chain-of-Thought Distillation: Small Models Can Also "Think" Step-by-Step
ACL 2023 [Paper]

Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes
ACL 2023 [Paper]

SCOTT: Self-Consistent Chain-of-Thought Distillation
ACL 2023 [Paper]

LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions
EACL 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Just CHOP: Embarrassingly Simple LLM Compression
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

GPT4All: Training an Assistant-style Chatbot with Large Scale Data Distillation from GPT-3.5-Turbo
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

PaD: Program-aided Distillation Can Teach Small Models Reasoning Better than Chain-of-thought Fine-tuning
NAACL 2024 [Paper]

MiniLLM: Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

On-Policy Distillation of Language Models: Learning from Self-Generated Mistakes
ICLR 2024 [Paper]

Chain-of-Thought Prompt Distillation for Multimodal Named Entity and Multimodal Relation Extraction
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Task-agnostic Distillation of Encoder-Decoder Language Models
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Sci-CoT: Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Knowledge Distillation in Small Models for Scientific QA
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Baby Llama: knowledge distillation from an ensemble of teachers trained on a small dataset with no performance penalty
CoNLL 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Can a student Large Language Model perform as well as it's teacher?
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models
ACL 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Lion: Adversarial Distillation of Closed-Source Large Language Model
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

MCC-KD: Multi-CoT Consistent Knowledge Distillation
EMNLP 2023 [Paper]

PromptMix: A Class Boundary Augmentation Method for Large Language Model Distillation
EMNLP 2023 [Paper]

SWE-Pruner: Self-Adaptive Context Pruning for Coding Agents
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

COMI: Coarse-to-fine Context Compression via Marginal Information Gain
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Cross-Family Speculative Prefill: Training-Free Long-Context Compression with Small Draft Models
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Structured Distillation for Personalized Agent Memory: 11x Token Reduction with Retrieval Preservation
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Density-aware Soft Context Compression with Semi-Dynamic Compression Ratio
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text
Arxiv 2026 [Paper]

AGORA: Adapter-Grounded Observation-Action Retention for Inference-Free Prompt Compression in LLM Agents
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

ICPC: In-context Prompt Compression with Faster Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Efficient Prompt Compression with Evaluator Heads for Long-Context Transformer Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

LCIRC: A Recurrent Compression Approach for Efficient Long-form Context and Query Dependent Modeling in LLMs
NAACL 2025 [Paper]

TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs
EMNLP 2025 [Paper]

Task-agnostic Prompt Compression with Context-aware Sentence Embedding and Reward-guided Task Descriptor
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression
EMNLP 2025 [Paper] [Code]

BatchGEMBA: Token-Efficient Machine Translation Evaluation with Batched Prompting and Prompt Compression
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

EFPC: Towards Efficient and Flexible Prompt Compression
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

KV-Distill: Nearly Lossless Learnable Context Compression for LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Text Compression for Efficient Language Generation
NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2025 [Paper]

Understanding and Improving Information Preservation in Prompt Compression for LLMs
EMNLP Findings 2025 [Paper]

Dynamic Compressing Prompts for Efficient Inference of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

PIS: Linking Importance Sampling and Attention Mechanisms for Efficient Prompt Compression
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ProCut: LLM Prompt Compression via Attribution Estimation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

SCOPE: A Generative Approach for LLM Prompt Compression
COLM 2026 [Paper]

ILRe: Intermediate Layer Retrieval for Context Compression in Causal Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

AttnComp: Attention-Guided Adaptive Context Compression for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
EMNLP Findings 2025 [Paper]

Distilling Many-Shot In-Context Learning into a Cheat Sheet
EMNLP Findings 2025 [Paper]

ACON: Optimizing Context Compression for Long-horizon LLM Agents
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Autoencoding-Free Context Compression for LLMs via Contextual Semantic Anchors
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models
ACL 2024 Findings [Paper]

Learning to Compress Prompt in Natural Language Formats
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Say More with Less: Understanding Prompt Learning Behaviors through Gist Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

StreamingDialogue: Prolonged Dialogue Learning via Long Context Compression with Minimal Losses
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

LLMLingua-2: Data Distillation for Efficient and Faithful Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression
ACL Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

PCToolkit: A Unified Plug-and-Play Prompt Compression Toolkit of Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

PROMPT-SAW: Leveraging Relation-Aware Graphs for Textual Prompt Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Prompts As Programs: A Structure-Aware Approach to Efficient Compile-Time Prompt Optimization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Adapting LLMs for Efficient Context Processing through Soft Prompt Compression
IPCA 2024 [Paper]

Compressing Long Context for Enhancing RAG with AMR-based Concept Distillation
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

UniICL: An Efficient Unified Framework Unifying Compression, Selection, and Generation
ACL 2025 [Paper]

SelfCP: Compressing Long Prompt to 1/12 Using the Frozen Large Language Model Itself
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Fundamental Limits of Prompt Compression: A Rate-Distortion Framework for Black-Box Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

QUITO: Accelerating Long-Context Reasoning through Query-Guided Context Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

500xCompressor: Generalized Prompt Compression for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Enhancing and Accelerating Large Language Models via Instruction-Aware Contextual Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Prompt Compression with Context-Aware Sentence Encoding for Fast and Improved LLM Inference
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Learning to Compress Contexts for Efficient Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Parse Trees Guided LLM Prompt Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

AlphaZip: Neural Network-Enhanced Lossless Text Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Discovering the Gems in Early Layers: Accelerating Long-Context LLMs with 1000x Input Token Reduction
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Perception Compressor:A training-free prompt compression method in long context scenarios
NAACL Findings 2025 [Paper]

From Reading to Compressing: Exploring the Multi-document Reader for Prompt Compression
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Selection-p: Self-Supervised Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression for Faithfulness and Transferability
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper]

Style-Compress: An LLM-Based Prompt Compression Framework Considering Task-Specific Styles
EMNLP Findings 2024 [Paper]

Did You Read the Instructions? Rethinking the Effectiveness of Task Definitions in Instruction Learning
ACL 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Batch Prompting: Efficient Inference with Large Language Model APIs
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Adapting Language Models to Compress Contexts
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Compressing Context to Enhance Inference Efficiency of Large Language Models
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

LLMLingua: Compressing Prompts for Accelerated Inference of Large Language Models
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

Vector-Quantized Prompt Learning for Paraphrase Generation
EMNLP Findings 2023 [Paper]

Efficient Prompting via Dynamic In-Context Learning
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Learning to Compress Prompts with Gist Tokens
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code]

In-context Autoencoder for Context Compression in a Large Language Model
ICLR 2024 [Paper]

Discrete Prompt Compression with Reinforcement Learning
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

BatchPrompt: Accomplish more with less
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Do Compressed LLMs Forget Knowledge? An Experimental Study with Practical Implications
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

RECOMP: Improving Retrieval-Augmented LMs with Compression and Selective Augmentation
Arxiv 2023 [Paper] [Code]

LongLLMLingua: Accelerating and Enhancing LLMs in Long Context Scenarios via Prompt Compression
ACL 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Extending Context Window of Large Language Models via Semantic Compression
Arxiv 2023 [Paper]

Fewer is More: Boosting LLM Reasoning with Reinforced Context Pruning
EMNLP 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Compressed Context Memory For Online Language Model Interaction
ICLR 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Joint Encoding of KV-Cache Blocks for Scalable LLM Serving
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

OrbitFlow: SLO-Aware Long-Context LLM Serving with Fine-Grained KV Cache Reconfiguration
VLDB 2026 [Paper]

HeteroCache: A Dynamic Retrieval Approach to Heterogeneous KV Cache Compression for Long-Context LLM Inference
ACL 2026 [Paper]

LRAgent: Efficient KV Cache Sharing for Multi-LoRA LLM Agents
ICML 2026 [Paper]

ForesightKV: Optimizing KV Cache Eviction for Reasoning Models by Learning Long-Term Contribution
ICML 2026 [Paper]

ParisKV: Fast and Drift-Robust KV-Cache Retrieval for Long-Context LLMs
ICML 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Learning to Evict from Key-Value Cache
ICML 2026 [Paper] [Code]

KEEP: A KV-Cache-Centric Memory Management System for Efficient Embodied Planning
DAC 2026 [Paper]

LookaheadKV: Fast and Accurate KV Cache Eviction by Glimpsing into the Future without Generation
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

ScoutAttention: Efficient KV Cache Offloading via Layer-Ahead CPU Pre-computation for LLM Inference
DAC 2026 [Paper]

Don't Waste Bits! Adaptive KV-Cache Quantization for Lightweight On-Device LLMs
CVPR 2026 [Paper]

TriAttention: Efficient Long Reasoning with Trigonometric KV Compression
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Latent-Condensed Transformer for Efficient Long Context Modeling
ACL 2026 [Paper]

Open-TQ-Metal: Fused Compressed-Domain Attention for Long-Context LLM Inference on Apple Silicon
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

River-LLM: Large Language Model Seamless Exit Based on KV Share
ACL 2026 [Paper]

PolyKV: A Shared Asymmetrically-Compressed KV Cache Pool for Multi-Agent LLM Inference
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Rethinking KV Cache Eviction via a Unified Information-Theoretic Objective
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Make Your LVLM KV Cache More Lightweight
TMLR 2026 [Paper]

SplitZip: Ultra Fast Lossless KV Compression for Disaggregated LLM Serving
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

ReST-KV: Robust KV Cache Eviction with Layer-wise Output Reconstruction and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

MuKV: Multi-Grained KV Cache Compression for Long Streaming Video Question-Answering
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Semantic Cache Distillation: Efficient State Transfer via Reuse and Selective Patching
ICML 2026 [Paper]

RKSC: Reasoning-Aware KV Cache Sharing and Confident Early Exit for Multi-Step LLM Inference
ICML 2026 Workshop [Paper]

KVEraser: Learning to Steer KV Cache for Efficient Localized Context Erasing
ICML 2026 Workshop [Paper] [Code]

CompressKV: Semantic-Retrieval-Guided KV-Cache Compression for Resource-Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

HARD-KV: Head-Adaptive Regularization for Decoding-time KV Compression
ICML 2026 [Paper]

GSRQ: Gain-Shape Residual Quantization for Sub-1-bit KV Cache
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Fractal KV-Cache Archives: Lossless Symbolic Storage with In-Place Retrieval for Long-Context LLM Inference
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

C$^2$KV: Compressed and Composable KV Cache Reuse for Efficient LLM Inference
KDD 2026 [Paper]

WnW: Waxing-and-Waning KV Cache for Long-Form Speech LLMs
EMNLP 2026 [Paper]

VisCache: Visual KV Cache Pruning for Efficient Vision Large Language Model Inference
Arxiv 2026 [Paper] [Code]

TreeKV: Smooth Key-Value Cache Compression with Tree Structures
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

RotateKV: Accurate and Robust 2-Bit KV Cache Quantization for LLMs via Outlier-Aware Adaptive Rotations
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Cache Me If You Must: Adaptive Key-Value Quantization for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ChunkKV: Semantic-Preserving KV Cache Compression for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]

FastKV: Decoupling of Context Reduction and KV Cache Compression for Prefill-Decoding Acceleration
ACL Findings 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Semantic Integrity Matters: Benchmarking and Preserving High-Density Reasoning in KV Cache Compression
ICML 2026 [Paper]

PolarQuant: Quantizing KV Caches with Polar Transformation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Streaming Attention Approximation via Discrepancy Theory
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Unshackling Context Length: An Efficient Selective Attention Approach through Query-Key Compression
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

RocketKV: Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference via Two-Stage KV Cache Compression
ICML 2025 [Paper]

Quantize What Counts: More for Keys, Less for Values
ACL 2026 [Paper]

SVDq: 1.25-bit and 410x Key Cache Compression for LLM Attention
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ReFreeKV: Towards Threshold-Free KV Cache Compression
ACL Findings 2026 [Paper]

BaKlaVa -- Budgeted Allocation of KV cache for Long-context Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

WeightedKV: Attention Scores Weighted Key-Value Cache Merging for Large Language Models
ICASSP 2025 [Paper]

KVCrush: Key value cache size-reduction using similarity in head-behaviour
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Q-Filters: Leveraging QK Geometry for Efficient KV Cache Compression
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Beyond RAG: Task-Aware KV Cache Compression for Comprehensive Knowledge Reasoning
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

FastCache: Optimizing Multimodal LLM Serving through Lightweight KV-Cache Compression Framework
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

LLMs Know What to Drop: Self-Attention Guided KV Cache Eviction for Efficient Long-Context Inference
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

ZeroMerge: Parameter-Free KV Cache Compression for Memory-Efficient Long-Context LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Time and Memory Trade-off of KV-Cache Compression in Tensor Transformer Decoding
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Plug-and-Play 1.x-Bit KV Cache Quantization for Video Large Language Models
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

OmniKV: Dynamic Context Selection for Efficient Long-Context LLMs
ICLR 2025 [Paper]

WindowKV: Task-Adaptive Group-Wise KV Cache Window Selection for Efficient LLM Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

xKV: Cross-Layer KV-Cache Compression via Aligned Singular Vector Extraction
ICML 2026 [Paper] [Code]

LogQuant: Log-Distributed 2-Bit Quantization of KV Cache with Superior Accuracy Preservation
ICLR 2025 Workshop on Sparsity in LLMs (SLLM) [Paper] [Code]

AirCache: Activating Inter-modal Relevancy KV Cache Compression for Efficient Large Vision-Language Model Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Rethinking Key-Value Cache Compression Techniques for Large Language Model Serving
MLSys 2025 [Paper] [Code]

MILLION: Mastering Long-Context LLM Inference Via Outlier-Immunized KV Product Quantization
DAC 2025 [Paper] [Code]

KeepKV: Eliminating Output Perturbation in KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLMs Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

FreqKV: Key-Value Compression in Frequency Domain for Context Window Extension
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Accurate KV Cache Quantization with Outlier Tokens Tracing
ACL 2025 [Paper] [Code]

NQKV: A KV Cache Quantization Scheme Based on Normal Distribution Characteristics
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Titanus: Enabling KV Cache Pruning and Quantization On-the-Fly for LLM Acceleration
GLSVLSI 2025 [Paper] [Code]

NSNQuant: A Double Normalization Approach for Calibration-Free Low-Bit Vector Quantization of KV Cache
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

PM-KVQ: Progressive Mixed-precision KV Cache Quantization for Long-CoT LLMs
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

KVzip: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Compression with Context Reconstruction
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper] [Code]

CommVQ: Commutative Vector Quantization for KV Cache Compression
ICML 2025 [Paper] [Code]

LeanK: Learnable K Cache Channel Pruning for Efficient Decoding
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Sparse-dLLM: Accelerating Diffusion LLMs with Dynamic Cache Eviction
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

SmallKV: Small Model Assisted Compensation of KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

KVSink: Understanding and Enhancing the Preservation of Attention Sinks in KV Cache Quantization for LLMs
COLM 2025 [Paper]

PiKV: KV Cache Management System for Mixture of Experts
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Retrospective Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-Context Generation
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

XQuant: Breaking the Memory Wall for LLM Inference with KV Cache Rematerialization
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

ZigzagAttention: Efficient Long-Context Inference with Exclusive Retrieval and Streaming Heads
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Accelerating LLM Inference via Dynamic KV Cache Placement in Heterogeneous Memory System
IEEE CAL 2025 [Paper]

SparK: Query-Aware Unstructured Sparsity with Recoverable KV Cache Channel Pruning
AAAI 2026 [Paper] [Code]

StreamMem: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Memory for Streaming Video Understanding
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

CommonKV: Compressing KV Cache with Cross-layer Parameter Sharing
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Learned Structure in Cartridges: Keys as Shareable Routers in Self-Studied Representations
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Spotlight Attention: Towards Efficient LLM Generation via Non-linear Hashing-based KV Cache Retrieval
Arxiv 2025 [Paper]

Judge Q: Trainable Queries for Optimized Information Retention in KV Cache Eviction
AAAI 2026 [Paper]

EpiCache: Episodic KV Cache Management for Long-Term Conversation on Resource-Constrained Environments
ICML 2026 [Paper]

KaVa: Latent Reasoning via Compressed KV-Cache Distillation
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

OBCache: Optimal Brain KV Cache Pruning for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
ICML 2026 [Paper]

Mask Tokens as Prophet: Fine-Grained Cache Eviction for Efficient dLLM Inference
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

XQuant: Achieving Ultra-Low Bit KV Cache Quantization with Cross-Layer Compression
EMNLP 2025 [Paper]

KVCOMM: Online Cross-context KV-cache Communication for Efficient LLM-based Multi-agent Systems
NeurIPS 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Attention Is All You Need for KV Cache in Diffusion LLMs
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

StreamingTOM: Streaming Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding
CVPR 2026 [Paper]

Mixing Importance with Diversity: Joint Optimization for KV Cache Compression in Large Vision-Language Models
ICLR 2026 [Paper] [Code]

FlexiCache: Leveraging Temporal Stability of Attention Heads for Efficient KV Cache Management
MLSys 2026 [Paper]

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

Reconstructing KV Caches with Cross-layer Fusion For Enhanced Transformers
ICLR 2026 [Paper]

V-Rex: Real-Time Streaming Video LLM Acceleration via Dynamic KV Cache Retrieval
HPCA 2026 [Paper]

PackKV: Reducing KV Cache Memory Footprint through LLM-Aware Lossy Compression
Arxiv 2025 [Paper] [Code]

KVQuant: Towards 10 Million Context Length LLM Inference with KV Cache Quantization
NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

KIVI: A Tuning-Free Asymmetric 2bit Quantization for KV Cache
ICML 2024 [Paper] [Code]

No Token Left Behind: Reliable KV Cache Compression via Importance-Aware Mixed Precision Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

Keyformer: KV Cache Reduction through Key Tokens Selection for Efficient Generative Inference
MLSys 2024 [Paper]

GEAR: An Efficient KV Cache Compression Recipefor Near-Lossless Generative Inference of LLM
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

QAQ: Quality Adaptive Quantization for LLM KV Cache
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [Code]

KV Cache is 1 Bit Per Channel: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Coupled Quantization
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

PyramidInfer: Pyramid KV Cache Compression for High-throughput LLM Inference
ACL 2024 [Paper]

Unlocking Data-free Low-bit Quantization with Matrix Decomposition for KV Cache Compression
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

ZipCache: Accurate and Efficient KV Cache Quantization with Salient Token Identification
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

MiniCache: KV Cache Compression in Depth Dimension for Large Language Models
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling
Arxiv 2024 [Paper]

QJL: 1-Bit Quantized JL Transform for KV Cache Quantization with Zero Overhead
Arxiv 2024 [Paper] [[Code]](https://githu