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Aug 2026
CLEAR: Water-Filling Rank Allocation with Sparse Dictionary Representations for Training-Free LLM Compression
CLEAR (Convex-optimal Layer Energy Allocation and Representation), a training-free compression framework that combines an activation-whitened structured-dictionary representation with a provably optimal, globally coordinated budget allocation across layers, is proposed.
Jingjiang Wei, Ook Lee
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