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Sliding-Window Merging for Compacting Patch-Redundant Layers in LLMs

Xuan Ding, Rui Sun, Yunjian Zhang, Xiu Yan, Yueqi Zhou, Kaihao Huang, Suzhong Fu, Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Abstract

Depth-wise pruning accelerates LLM inference in resource-constrained scenarios but suffers from performance degradation due to indiscriminate removal of entire Transformer layers. This paper reveals ``Patch-Like

BibTeX
@inproceedings{aaai2026_slidingwindowmer,
  title = {Sliding-Window Merging for Compacting Patch-Redundant Layers in LLMs},
  author = {Xuan Ding and Rui Sun and Yunjian Zhang and Xiu Yan and Yueqi Zhou and Kaihao Huang and Suzhong Fu and Angelica I Aviles-Rivero and Chuanlong Xie and Yao Zhu},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}