Delta-CKA and the Warm-Start Imperative: Empirical Findings on Layer Compression in Large Language Models

Under review at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

Recommended citation: M. Usama, "Delta-CKA and the Warm-Start Imperative: Empirical Findings on Layer Compression in Large Language Models," Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026.