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title: "Awesome-LLM-Compression"
type: "tool"
slug: "huangowen-awesome-llm-compression"
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github_url: "https://github.com/HuangOwen/Awesome-LLM-Compression"
homepage_url: null
stars: 1848
forks: 128
primary_language: null
license: "MIT"
archived: false
categories: ["llm-frameworks", "inference-serving"]
tags: ["compression", "research-papers", "training-acceleration", "efficiency"]
updated_at: "2026-07-12T02:13:32.59196+00:00"
---

# Awesome-LLM-Compression

> Awesome LLM compression research papers and tools to accelerate LLM training and inference.

Compilation of research papers and tools focused on compressing large language models for improved computational efficiency during both training and serving phases.

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/HuangOwen/Awesome-LLM-Compression
- Stars: 1,848 · Forks: 128 · Open issues: 0 · Watchers: 48
- License: MIT
- Last pushed: 2026-06-30T15:26:46+00:00

## Trust & health

_Signals computed from public GitHub metadata. Not a security guarantee._

- Maintenance: Active (computed 2026-07-11T10:32:41.395Z)
- Security scan: No lockfile (0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 0 low) · last scan 2026-07-11T10:32:42.037Z
- Full report: [trust report](/tools/huangowen-awesome-llm-compression/trust.md) · [JSON](https://www.graphcanon.com/api/graphcanon/tools/huangowen-awesome-llm-compression/trust)

## Categories

- [LLM Frameworks](/categories/llm-frameworks.md)
- [Inference & Serving](/categories/inference-serving.md)

## Tags

compression, research papers, training acceleration, efficiency

## Category neighbours (exploratory)

_Same-category tools for discovery only - not curated alternatives. Cap shown at six._

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- [llmfit](/tools/alexsjones-llmfit.md) - Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. (★ 29,280) [Very active]
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- [free-llm-api-resources](/tools/cheahjs-free-llm-api-resources.md) - A list of free LLM inference resources accessible via API. (★ 26,774) [Very active]
- [litgpt](/tools/lightning-ai-litgpt.md) - High-performance LLMs with recipes for pretraining, finetuning and deployment (★ 13,473) [Very active]
- [open-llms](/tools/eugeneyan-open-llms.md) - A list of open LLMs available for commercial use. (★ 12,825) [Dormant]

_+ 2 more not listed._

## Adoption goal

Awesome LLM-Compression curates a comprehensive collection of research papers and tools aimed at compressing large language models, focusing on enhancing computational efficiency during both training and serving phases.

## README (excerpt)

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    <h1>Awesome LLM Compression</h1>
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Awesome LLM compression research papers and tools to accelerate LLM training and inference. 

# Contents

- [📑 Papers](#papers)
  - [Survey](#survey)
  - [Quantization](#quantization)
  - [Pruning and Sparsity](#pruning-and-sparsity)
  - [Distillation](#distillation)
  - [Efficient Prompting](#efficient-prompting)
  - [KV Cache Compression](#kv-cache-compression)
  - [Other](#other)
- [🔧 Tools](#tools)
- [🙌 Contributing](#contributing)
- [🌟 Star History](#star-history)

## Papers

### Survey

- Compressed but Compromised? 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)

- A Survey on Model Compression for Large Language Models <br> TACL [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07633)

- 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)

- The Efficiency Spectrum of Large Language Models: An Algorithmic Survey <br> Arxiv 2023 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00678)

- 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)

- 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)

- Understanding LLMs: A Comprehensive Overview from Training to Inference <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02038) 

- 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)

- A Survey of Resource-efficient LLM and Multimodal Foundation Models <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08092) 

- A Survey on Hardware Accelerators for Large Language Models <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09890) 

- A Comprehensive Survey of Compression Algorithms for Language Models <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15347)

- A Survey on Transformer Compression <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05964)

- Model Compression and Efficient Inference for Large Language Models: A Survey <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09748) 

- LLM Inference Unveiled: Survey and Roofline Model Insights <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16363) 

- 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)

- Efficient Prompting Methods for Large Language Models: A Survey <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01077)

- Survey on Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models: Methods, Evaluation, and Application <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01885)

- 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)

- A Survey of Low-bit Large Language Models: Basics, Systems, and Algorithms <br> Arxiv 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16694) 

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/huangowen-awesome-llm-compression`](/api/graphcanon/tools/huangowen-awesome-llm-compression)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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