ml-inory / ml-inory/SPADE

feat[2]: WER-based layer importance (WLI) pruning + cosine baseline

Open
#2 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
0
Forks
0
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

Goal

Iteration 2 of the SPADE implementation: the pruning stage. Compute per-layer importance by leave-one-out layer removal measured with WER (WLI, paper Eq. 1), plus the cosine-based layer importance (CLI) baseline used for ablation, and remove low-importance layers to produce the pruned student backbone.

Acceptance

  • spade/pruning/ provides compute_wli (leave-one-out WER per layer), compute_cli (mean cosine distance between layer input/output), and layer selection/pruning utilities
  • Backbone supports temporarily disabling blocks (leave-one-out) and pruning returns a new student model whose retained blocks copy teacher weights
  • WER scorer abstraction: built-in token-codec scorer decoding generated codes to text; optional Whisper-based scorer for real audio
  • Pruning + selection + scorer have passing pytest tests

Notes

Iteration 2 for: SPADE - Structured Pruning and Adaptive Distillation for Efficient LLM-TTS (arXiv:2509.20802)

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the existing repository structure and define the interfaces under spade/pruning/ for WLI, CLI, layer selection, pruning, and scorer implementations. Run the current pytest suite before adding tests for leave-one-out disabling, cosine and WER scoring, retained teacher weights, and token-codec decoding. Done means the pruning and selection utilities work with both scorer modes and all related pytest tests pass.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.