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Svd LLM

Svd LLM is Python research code for compressing large language models using truncation-aware singular value decomposition, with documented options for LoRA parameter updates and GPTQ quantization.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when you want research code and explicit workflow instructions for SVD-based LLM compression, including a LLaMA-7B example and evaluation steps.

Who it is for

  • Researchers exploring SVD-based large language model compression.
  • Practitioners who want to reproduce or adapt the repository's documented compression and evaluation workflows.

Documented uses

  • Compress a supported large language model using truncation-aware SVD.
  • Update compressed weights with the documented sequential low-rank approximation and LoRA workflow.
  • Combine SVD-LLM with GPTQ-4bit in the documented LLaMA-7B example.
  • Evaluate a compressed model using perplexity and efficiency procedures.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The repository is public and identifies its license as Apache-2.0.

  • The setup instructions require Python 3.9 and Transformers exactly at version 4.35.2.
  • The README's quick-start script uses LLaMA-7B at a 20% compression ratio.
  • Perplexity evaluation requires two C4 JSON files in the repository's utils folder; the README says the original download link is invalid.
  • The README documents PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers as part of the stack.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Set up the SVD-LLM research environment

Prepare the documented Python environment and install the repository requirements.

Before you start

  • Conda
  • Python 3.9
  • Transformers version 4.35.2

Steps

  1. Create and activate a Conda environment with Python 3.9.

  2. Clone the SVD-LLM repository.

  3. Install the packages listed in requirements.txt.

Expected outcome

A Python environment with the repository requirements installed, ready for the documented workflows.

Guide limitations

  • The README says newer Python versions break some dependencies.
  • Transformers must be exactly version 4.35.2 because the compressed model uses a modified model structure.
Evidence and transparency

Sources & review

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17 October 2026
Original website title
AIoT-MLSys-Lab/SVD-LLM · Official homepage title · retained in its source language