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What Breaks Under Pruning in Smart Homes, and When? Evaluating LLM Degradation Across Architectures and Task Complexity
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Study shows how pruning degrades LLM performance in smart-home tool calling, with dense models failing sharply but mixture-of-experts models tolerating more pruning.
- Why it matters
- Engineers deploying pruned LLMs for home automation or device control need to understand failure modes beyond overall accuracy metrics.
- Watch out
- Results are specific to smart-home tool calling tasks; degradation patterns may differ significantly for other LLM applications and use cases.
- llm
- language model
- tool calling
- fine-tun
- mixture-of-experts
The patterns behind this
- Progressive Rollout & Shadow Mode
- Context Editing & Tool-Result Clearing
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
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