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title = "{EOP}-{LLM}: Energy Oriented Pruning for Large Language Models",
author = "Huang, Guan and
Shu, Tao",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
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month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "7443--7464",
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abstract = "In deployed large language models (LLMs), inference energy consumption has grown rapidly and has emerged as a key bottleneck in large-scale deployment, yet most existing inference efficiency methods focus on reducing FLOPs or latency, rather than explicitly modeling or enforcing end-to-end inference energy constraints. We propose EOP-LLM, an energy-oriented dynamic pruning framework that enables LLM inference under explicit per-sequence energy budgets. EOP-LLM combines a device-calibrated energy proxy with lightweight token and feed-forward (FFN) selectors, coordinated through a global dual variable, to dynamically allocate computation while preserving model quality. Extensive experiments on LLaMA 3.2 (1B/3B) and LLaMA 3.1 (8B) demonstrate that EOP-LLM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art dynamic pruning baselines under matched energy budgets, while strictly adhering to per-sequence energy constraints."
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Markdown (Informal)
[EOP-LLM: Energy Oriented Pruning for Large Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.367/) (Huang & Shu, Findings 2026)
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