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model-pruning

Category: multimodal-and-emerging · License: MIT · Version: 1.0.0 Tags: Emerging Techniques, Model Pruning, Wanda, SparseGPT, Sparsity, Model Compression, N:M Sparsity, One-Shot Pruning, Structured Pruning, Unstructured Pruning, Fast Inference

When to use it

Reduce LLM size and accelerate inference using pruning techniques like Wanda and SparseGPT. Use when compressing models without retraining, achieving 50% sparsity with minimal accuracy loss, or enabling faster inference on hardware accelerators. Covers unstructured pruning, structured pruning, N:M sparsity, magnitude pruning, and one-shot methods.

Example requests

Ask your agent in plain language, for example:
  • “How do I prune Llama-2-7B to 50% sparsity without retraining?”
  • “I have llama-2-7b-hf checkpoint at ./models/llama2-7b and an A100 40GB. I want to run Wanda with 2:4 sparsity using 128 C4 calibration samples, then compare WikiText2 perplexity against the dense model. Running main.py gives a CUDA OOM error while computing activation norms. What should I do?”
  • “My 13B model is too big for the edge devices we’re targeting, and I can’t afford to retrain it. I want to remove a large share of the weights and still have it run faster on Ampere GPUs. What are my options and tradeoffs?”

Install

In Claude Code you can also add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills and install the whole multimodal-and-emerging category with /plugin install multimodal-and-emerging@research-agent-skills.

Full playbook

Read SKILL.md for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.
Last modified on October 19, 2026