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arxiv: 2606.03465 · v1 · pith:AVBCL7ESnew · submitted 2026-06-02 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

Rethinking the Role of Tensor Decompositions in Post-Training LLM Compression

Artur Zagitov , Alexander Miasnikov , Maxim Krutikov , Vladimir Aletov , Gleb Molodtsov , Nail Bashirov , Artem Tsedenov , Aleksandr Beznosikov This is my paper

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keywords tensor decompositionLLM compressionpost-training compressionmixture of expertsmodel efficiencyrepresentation heterogeneity
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Tensor decompositions are limited for post-training LLM compression because their shared-subspace assumption conflicts with the heterogeneous representations these models learn.

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The paper evaluates tensor decomposition techniques for compressing large language models after training across both dense Transformer architectures and mixture-of-experts variants. It shows that these methods require weights to occupy shared low-rank subspaces that can be factored into compact forms. Modern LLMs instead develop distinct, non-shared representations across layers and components. The resulting performance trade-offs are documented through experiments and supported by theoretical analysis. This delineates where tensor methods retain a viable role and where they encounter hard limits at scale.

Core claim

Tensor decompositions presuppose that model weights can be expressed through shared subspaces amenable to low-rank factorization, yet the representations learned by contemporary LLMs are heterogeneous and resist such sharing, which bounds the compression ratios achievable without accuracy degradation.

What carries the argument

The mismatch between the shared subspaces required by tensor decompositions and the heterogeneous representations learned by LLMs.

If this is right

  • Compression ratios from tensor methods decline as model scale and representation diversity increase.
  • Other post-training techniques become preferable for large-scale LLM deployment.
  • Tensor methods retain utility mainly for smaller models or selected layers that exhibit more shared structure.
  • Deployment pipelines should incorporate checks for representation heterogeneity before applying tensor compression.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Compression approaches that enforce uniformity across weights may face analogous limits in other large-scale neural architectures.
  • Layer-wise or component-specific adaptations could be tested to see whether they relax the subspace mismatch.
  • The same evaluation protocol could be applied to newer model families to map how the mismatch evolves with training data or architecture changes.

Load-bearing premise

The systematic evaluation across dense and MoE architectures together with the accompanying theoretical analysis suffice to establish the mismatch as a general property rather than an artifact of the specific models examined.

What would settle it

A demonstration that tensor decomposition achieves high compression ratios on a large modern LLM while preserving near-original accuracy would falsify the mismatch as a limiting factor.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.03465 by Aleksandr Beznosikov, Alexander Miasnikov, Artem Tsedenov, Artur Zagitov, Gleb Molodtsov, Maxim Krutikov, Nail Bashirov, Vladimir Aletov.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Perplexity (PPL) over pruning. Displays the final PPL when each layer is individually pruned. 2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FFN compression on GPT-J 6B. All methods compress the same middle-to-late block ranges [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: C4 perplexity versus bits saved, excluding embeddings, for GPT-J 6B and LLaMA 2 7B. Each point is one compression run, and 𝐿 denotes the number of consecutive compressed transformer blocks. Arrows connect each decomposition to its LoRA-repaired variant, and the Pareto frontier marks the best observed trade-offs. Nevertheless, the highest compression ratio is achieved by LASER (≈ 14%), yet with +8 PPL incre… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: C4 perplexity of TD-MoE and MoBE on Qwen3-30B-A3B model. MoE layers are an especially appealing target for tensorization. Since Switch Transformers [9], MoE models have been trained under a trade-off between expert specialization and load balancing, often leading to overlapping representations across experts. This effect becomes even more pronounced in grouped designs [37, 28]. Consequently, the expert dim… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Residual-stream activation geometry. (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: (a) Positions of inliers, the known super-weight, top-magnitude entries, and activation-weighted top-𝑘 coordinates in the weight matrix. (b) Fraction of tracked entries recovered as a function of retained SVD rank. suggests that tensorization degrades quality by progressively distorting the geometry of the residual stream, rather than merely increasing parameter reconstruction error. Thus, the main limitat… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: C4 perplexity versus bits saved on GPT-J 6B for all selected modules and post-training quantization. According to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Single-layer decomposition sensitivity on LLaMA 2 7B. Each point compresses only one transformer layer. The left and right panels report WikiText-2 and C4 perplexity, respectively; early layers are shown separately because of large perplexity spikes. compare activations at the last compressed block. We report the mean angular deviation from the dense activations and the compressed-to-dense activation norm … view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: (a) Positions of random inliers, top-magnitude entries, and activation-weighted top-𝑘 entries in the weight matrix. Marker size encodes absolute weight magnitude. (b) Fraction of tracked entries restored as a function of retained SVD rank. B.4 Detailed GPT-J and LLaMA 2 Results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: WikiText-2 perplexity versus bits saved for GPT-J 6B and LLaMA 2 7B. Each point is one compression run, and 𝐿 denotes the number of consecutive compressed transformer blocks. Arrows connect each decomposition to its LoRA-repaired variant; the Pareto frontier marks the best observed trade-offs. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Macro LM-Eval accuracy drop (pp) GPT-J 6B baseline = 0 (dense) Tucker+TT, LoRA L = 7, 23.9% saved… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Macro LM-Eval accuracy drop versus bits saved for GPT-J 6B and LLaMA 2 7B. Macro drop is the unweighted average accuracy drop, in percentage points, across ARC-Challenge, HellaSwag, OpenBookQA, PIQA, and WinoGrande. Lower is better. activation-weighted version instead ranks entries by score𝑖 𝑗 = |𝑊𝑖 𝑗 | √︃ diag(𝑋⊤𝑋)𝑗 , where 𝑋 contains calibration inputs to the corresponding linear layer. This score is in… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: C4 perplexity versus bits saved for all selected modules under TT and Dense-Sparse TT. Dense-Sparse TT stores a small sparse correction exactly and applies TT to the inlier matrix. We compare magnitude-selected sparse entries with activation-weighted sparse entries for 𝑓 ∈ {5×10−7 , 10−6 }. middle, the 24th layer. We first extend the compressed set toward later layers for 12 MoE layers, reaching roughly t… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: WikiText-2 perplexity as the number of TD-MoE-compressed MoE layers increases on Qwen3-30B-A3B, for 𝜌 ∈ {0.2, 0.4}. C4 perplexity is shown in the main text ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Downstream task accuracy (%) as the number of TD-MoE-compressed MoE layers increases on Qwen3-30B-A3B. nudges the miscalibrated baseline toward more generic next-token statistics. We therefore treat downstream accuracy ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Downstream task accuracy (%) as the number of TD-MoE-compressed MoE layers increases on GPT-OSS-20B for 𝜌 ∈ {0.2, 0.4}. 3 6 9 12 Compressed layers 30 35 40 45 Accuracy (%) ARC-C 3 6 9 12 Compressed layers 45 50 55 Accuracy (%) HellaSwag 3 6 9 12 Compressed layers 70 72 74 76 Accuracy (%) PIQA 3 6 9 12 Compressed layers 56 58 60 62 64 66 Accuracy (%) WinoGrande 3 6 9 12 Compressed layers 30 32 34 36 38 40 … view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Downstream accuracy (%) versus number of TD-MoE-compressed layers on GPT-OSS-20B at 𝜌=0.4. preserve keeps the expert Tucker rank equal to 𝐾; compress additionally reduces the expert dimension. MoBE’s published convention. The two settings are matched in bits-saved to TD-MoE 𝜌=0.4 and 𝜌=0.2 respectively, while all other protocol details (progressive middle-out block schedule, evaluation datasets, activatio… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: WikiText-2 (left) and C4 (right) perplexity as the number of TD-MoE-compressed MoE layers increases on GPT-OSS-20B, for 𝜌 ∈ {0.2, 0.4}. The uncompressed baseline (dotted) is anomalously high because GPT-OSS targets the harmony chat format rather than raw-text language modeling; perplexity is therefore not a reliable quality metric for this model. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: C4 perplexity as the number of compressed MoE layers increases on GPT-OSS-20B, for TD-MoE 𝜌 ∈ {0.2, 0.4} and MoBE 𝑛𝐵 ∈ {8, 16}. The uncompressed C4 baseline (dotted) is anomalously high because GPT￾OSS targets the harmony chat format rather than raw-text language modelling (cf [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_18.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Post-training compression is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) under tight resource constraints. Tensor decompositions have emerged as a promising direction, offering compact parameterizations well suited to Transformer weight structures. However, existing studies evaluate these methods in narrow settings, leaving unclear whether tensorization is effective at large-scale deployment. We systematically evaluate tensor compression across dense and MoE architectures, establishing performance trade-offs grounded in both empirical analysis and theoretical analysis. We identify a fundamental mismatch between the shared subspaces assumed by tensor decompositions and the heterogeneous representations learned by modern LLMs, thereby delineating their practical limits and clarifying their viable role in large-scale deployment. The code is available at https://github.com/brain-lab-research/TT-LLM.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that tensor decompositions for post-training compression of LLMs are limited by a fundamental mismatch between their shared-subspace assumptions and the heterogeneous representations learned by modern LLMs. This is supported by systematic empirical evaluation across dense and MoE architectures together with theoretical analysis, which together delineate the practical limits and viable role of these methods at large scale. Code is released for reproducibility.

Significance. If the mismatch holds as a general property, the work would usefully constrain expectations for tensor-based compression in LLM deployment and redirect effort toward methods better matched to heterogeneous representations. The combination of dense/MoE coverage and open code strengthens the contribution relative to prior narrow evaluations.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (theoretical analysis): the argument that the mismatch is fundamental rather than an artifact of the tested decompositions requires an explicit demonstration that no tensor decomposition (not merely the ones evaluated) can capture the observed heterogeneity; the current framing risks reducing to an empirical observation about specific factorizations.
  2. [§5] §5 (experiments): the claim that the mismatch is a general property of modern LLMs rests on the assumption that the selected dense and MoE models plus training regimes are representative; without additional controls (e.g., varying pre-training objectives or scales beyond those tested), the generality conclusion remains under-supported relative to the central claim.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] Notation for subspace overlap metrics in §3.2 is introduced without a clear reference to prior tensor literature; adding one or two citations would improve traceability.
  2. [Figure 2] Figure 2 caption does not state the number of random seeds or whether error bars reflect standard deviation across runs; this affects interpretability of the reported trade-offs.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments and indicate the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (theoretical analysis): the argument that the mismatch is fundamental rather than an artifact of the tested decompositions requires an explicit demonstration that no tensor decomposition (not merely the ones evaluated) can capture the observed heterogeneity; the current framing risks reducing to an empirical observation about specific factorizations.

    Authors: The theoretical analysis rests on the defining property of tensor decompositions: they express a tensor as a multilinear combination of shared factors across modes. This shared-subspace structure is common to the entire family of decompositions (CP, Tucker, TT, etc.) and is not limited to the specific factorizations we evaluated. We will revise §4 to state the argument in this general form, showing that any method relying on shared low-rank factors cannot accommodate the observed per-layer heterogeneity without rank inflation that negates compression benefits. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (experiments): the claim that the mismatch is a general property of modern LLMs rests on the assumption that the selected dense and MoE models plus training regimes are representative; without additional controls (e.g., varying pre-training objectives or scales beyond those tested), the generality conclusion remains under-supported relative to the central claim.

    Authors: The evaluated models span current dense and MoE architectures at multiple scales and were chosen as representative of contemporary training practices. We agree that explicit discussion of scope would strengthen the presentation. We will add a short paragraph in the discussion section noting the tested regimes and stating that the mismatch is demonstrated for models trained under standard next-token prediction objectives, while leaving open the possibility of future checks on alternative pre-training regimes. revision: partial

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The paper's central claim of a fundamental mismatch between tensor decomposition assumptions and LLM representations is presented as the outcome of systematic empirical evaluation across dense and MoE models plus accompanying theoretical analysis. No equations, fitted parameters, self-citations, or ansatzes are quoted in the provided text that reduce the conclusion to a definition or input by construction. The derivation chain is self-contained and externally falsifiable via the reported performance trade-offs.

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