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Emerging agentic LLM workloads are driving rapidly growing demand on both memory capacity and bandwidth, with different phases of inference (e.g., prefill and decode) imposing distinct requirements. Industry is responding by composing…
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The application of Transformer-based large models has achieved numerous success in recent years. However, the exponential growth in the parameters of large models introduces formidable memory challenge for edge deployment. Prior works to…
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