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# Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem

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**Published:** 2026-09-21T13:44:34.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** llm, fine\-tuning, optimization, multiverse\-computing

## Summary

A Blog post by Multiverse Computing on Hugging Face

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