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A Study of Jailbreaking in Compressed LLMs <br> NeurIPS Lock-LLM Workshop 2025 [[Paper]](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=OkNfb8SmLh) [[Blog]] (https://namburisrinath.medium.com/compressed-but-compromised-a-study-of-jailbreaking-in-compressed-llms-02a6e40aaf17)\n\n- A Survey on Model Compression for Large Language Models <br> TACL [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07633)\n\n- The Cost of Compression: Investigating the Impact of Compression on Parametric Knowledge in Language Models <br> EMNLP 2023 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00960) [[Code]](https://github.com/NamburiSrinath/LLMCompression)\n\n- The Efficiency Spectrum of Large Language Models: An Algorithmic Survey <br> Arxiv 2023 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00678)\n\n- Efficient Large Language Models: A Survey <br> TMLR [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03863) [[GitHub Page]](https://github.com/AIoT-MLSys-Lab/Efficient-LLMs-Survey)\n\n- Towards Efficient Generative Large Language Model Serving: A Survey from Algorithms to Systems <br> ICML 2024 Tutorial [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15234) [[Tutorial]](https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/tutorial/35229)\n\n- Understanding LLMs: A Comprehensive Overview from Training to Inference <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02038) \n\n- Faster and Lighter LLMs: A Survey on Current Challenges and Way Forward <br> IJCAI 2024 (Survey Track) [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01799) [[GitHub Page]](https://github.com/nyunAI/Faster-LLM-Survey)\n\n- A Survey of Resource-efficient LLM and Multimodal Foundation Models <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08092) \n\n- A Survey on Hardware Accelerators for Large Language Models <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09890) \n\n- A Comprehensive Survey of Compression Algorithms for Language Models <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15347)\n\n- A Survey on Transformer Compression <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05964)\n\n- Model Compression and Efficient Inference for Large Language Models: A Survey <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09748) \n\n- LLM Inference Unveiled: Survey and Roofline Model Insights <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16363) \n\n- A Survey on Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13116) [[GitHub Page]](https://github.com/Tebmer/Awesome-Knowledge-Distillation-of-LLMs)\n\n- Efficient Prompting Methods for Large Language Models: A Survey <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01077)\n\n- Survey on Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models: Methods, Evaluation, and Application <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01885)\n\n- On-Device Language Models: A Comprehensive Review <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00088) [[GitHub Page]](https://github.com/NexaAI/Awesome-LLMs-on-device) [[Download On-device LLMs]](https://nexaai.com/models)\n\n- A Survey of Low-bit Large Language Models: Basics, Systems, and Algorithms <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16694) \n\n- Contextual Com","github_created_at":"2023-05-30T06:26:11+00:00","created_at":"2026-07-11T10:32:40.865569+00:00","updated_at":"2026-07-12T02:13:32.59196+00:00","categories":[{"slug":"llm-frameworks","name":"LLM Frameworks","url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/llm-frameworks","markdown_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/llm-frameworks.md","api_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/api/graphcanon/categories/llm-frameworks"},{"slug":"inference-serving","name":"Inference & Serving","url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/inference-serving","markdown_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/inference-serving.md","api_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/api/graphcanon/categories/inference-serving"}],"tags":[{"slug":"compression","name":"compression"},{"slug":"research-papers","name":"research papers"},{"slug":"training-acceleration","name":"training acceleration"},{"slug":"efficiency","name":"efficiency"}],"trust":{"provenance":{"is_fork":false,"github_id":647138126,"owner_type":"User","methodology":"github_public_v1","parent_repo":null,"near_duplicate_slugs":[]},"computed_at":"2026-07-11T10:32:41.395Z","maintenance":{"label":"Active","score":82,"methodology":"github_public_v1","releases_90d":0,"days_since_push":10,"last_release_at":null},"security_summary":{"status":"no_lockfile","scanner":null,"low_count":0,"high_count":0,"last_scan_at":"2026-07-11T10:32:42.037Z","medium_count":0,"scan_profile":"none","critical_count":0}},"capability_facts":{"scan":{"source":"repo_scan","observed_at":"2026-07-11T11:18:23.675Z"},"license_spdx":{"value":"MIT","source":"github.license","observed_at":"2026-07-11T11:18:23.675Z"}},"decision_facts":{"hosting":null,"pricing":null,"requirements":{"notes":["The repository provides curated listings but does not develop its own software; 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