Papers by Niyar R Barman
TELL-TALE: Task Efficient LLMs with Task Aware Layer Elimination (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models typically come with a fixed architecture, but not all layers contribute equally to every downstream task. |
| Approach: | They propose an inference-time method that selectively removes irrelevant or detrimental layers . the method is hardware-agnostic, requires no retraining, and operates entirely at inference time . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method matches or surpasses baseline performance while reducing computational costs. |