Router-Tuning: A Simple and Effective Approach for Dynamic Depth (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve computational efficiency are under-explored and face several critical challenges. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that selectively activates only a subset of the model's layers, skipping those deemed less important. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves performance on Attention layers and MoE layers while reducing redundant computation and memory usage. |
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