BI-Mistral-7layers-SGR-Dolci
This model is a depth-pruned version of Mistral-7B-Instruct, obtained via Block Influence (BI) layer pruning and post-trained using QLoRA with Self-Generated Responses (SGR) on the Dolci dataset.
It was released as part of our study on the limits of layer pruning for generative reasoning.
Summary
- Base model: Mistral-7B-Instruct
- Pruning: Block Influence (BI)
- Depth: 7 layers
- Post-training: QLoRA
- Supervision: Self-Generated Responses (SGR)
- Data: Dolci (SGR variant)
This checkpoint is intended for research and analysis of pruning and recovery, not as a production model.
Paper
On the Limits of Layer Pruning for Generative Reasoning in LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01997
@misc{shrestha2026limitslayerpruninggenerative,
title={On the Limits of Layer Pruning for Generative Reasoning in LLMs},
author={Safal Shrestha and Anubhav Shrestha and Aadim Nepal and Minwu Kim and Keith Ross},
year={2026},
eprint={2602.01997},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.LG},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01997},
}