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Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem

Multiverse Computing reformulates LLM block pruning as an Ising glass optimization, gaining ~23 MMLU points over block-influence at 50% compression of Llama-3.3

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  • BuilderIf you prune deep, compute the block-coupling Hessian once and reuse it across compression targets instead of ranking blocks independently.
  • ResearcherTreating block selection as a constrained binary optimization over an Ising glass beats mean-field heuristics, and low-lying excited states can outperform the g
  • InvestorMultiverse Computing is positioning its quantum-inspired solver stack as a reusable compression layer that composes with quantization and distillation.
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