@article{pruningasacooperativegamesurrogateassist,
  title = {Pruning as a Cooperative Game: Surrogate-Assisted Layer Contribution Estimation for Large Language Models},
  author = {Xuan Ding and Pengyu Tong and Ranjie Duan and Yunjian Zhang and Rui Sun and Yao Zhu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.07804},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07804},
}