Learning Functional Subspaces for Neural Network Compression

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What you would change

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Compare against

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3. Run the baseline and the proposed change on identical inputs. Keep other settings fixed and repeat paired runs to expose variation.
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What to measure

Task success, latency, memory, context limits, and migration cost.

When to keep it

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research area

efficient architectures

technical change

End-to-end learned low-rank subspace compression

published

2026-09-30

The method fits constrained infrastructure since it only trains small projectors on frozen weights and yields genuine memory and latency gains, but the claimed advantages require reimplementing the training and factor-merging pipeline and validating speedups on the reader's actual serving stack.

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   LSP replaces closed-form low-rank truncation criteria (activation energy, layer-wise reconstruction, quadratic loss approximations) with orthogonal projectors learned jointly against a global KL or training-loss objective, then merged into standard low-rank factors that also permit a shared narrow KV latent. The cost is an additional optimization pass over the projectors (weights stay frozen, so it fits one 24 GB GPU for models up to roughly 7B with careful handling), plus rank-allocation overhead and the engineering of tied-layer factor sharing, which is not yet an off-the-shelf library feature. It can fail when the KL-to-dense objective does not preserve task-specific behavior, when downstream kernels do not exploit the low-rank factors or shared latent (eliminating the speedup), and at extreme compression where even learned subspaces degrade.

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2. claim 02Paperraft inference

   At 70% compression of Llama-2-7B, LSP reaches 10.9 WikiText-2 perplexity and 42.2% mean zero-shot accuracy (vs 13.3 and 36.0% for the best baseline), decodes up to 1.6x faster at small batch sizes, and shrinks combined weight plus KV-cache memory by 13.5x at 128k context.

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