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New pruning framework slashes image model size, enables 24GB GPU inference

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Researchers have developed a Tree-structured Mixed-policy Pruning (TMP) framework designed to reduce the parameter count and computational requirements of large-scale image generation models. This framework is applicable to both text-to-image and image-to-image tasks, and supports architectures like Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and Diffusion transformers (DiT). Experiments demonstrated TMP's ability to compress the 80B parameter HunyuanImage 3.0 model down to 20B parameters, enabling its inference on a single 24GB GPU, with minimal loss in generation quality. The framework also successfully compressed the Z-Image turbo model from 6B to 4B parameters. AI

IMPACT Enables more efficient deployment and accessibility of large image generation models on consumer hardware.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel framework for model pruning.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Peizhen Zhang, Yang Li, Xunsong Li, Songtao Liu, Zewen Liu, Qiangqiang Hu, Guotong Guo, Jupeng Ding, Yifu Sun, coopersli, Jian Zhang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo ·

    TMP: Tree-structured Mixed-policy Pruning for Large-scale Image Generation and Editing

    arXiv:2606.27089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern image generation model rapidly grows their sizes to meet high-fidelity image synthesis. However, they gradually become unaffordable for their enormous parameter consumption and computation budget that lead to massive resource…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Liefeng Bo ·

    TMP: Tree-structured Mixed-policy Pruning for Large-scale Image Generation and Editing

    Modern image generation model rapidly grows their sizes to meet high-fidelity image synthesis. However, they gradually become unaffordable for their enormous parameter consumption and computation budget that lead to massive resources requirement and gpu memory footprint. In this …

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