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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional benefits to a wide range of domains, for tasks as diverse as code generation and robot navigation. While LLMs are usually served from cloud data centers, mission-critical and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mayank Arya , Yogesh Simmhan

With the wide adoption of AI applications, there is a pressing need of enabling real-time neural network (NN) inference on small embedded devices, but deploying NNs and achieving high performance of NN inference on these small devices is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Kai Huang , Wei Gao

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed the way we think about language understanding and generation, enthralling both researchers and developers. However, deploying LLMs for inference has been a significant challenge due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Dibakar Gope , David Mansell , Danny Loh , Ian Bratt

Deep learning (DL) workloads are moving towards accelerators for faster processing and lower cost. Modern DL accelerators are good at handling the large-scale multiply-accumulate operations that dominate DL workloads; however, it is…

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) requires significant memory, often exceeding the capacity of a single GPU. A common solution to this memory challenge is offloading compute and data from the GPU to the CPU. However, this approach is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Siyuan Chen , Zhuofeng Wang , Zelong Guan , Yudong Liu , Phillip B. Gibbons

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in long context generation. Extending the context length has disproportionately shifted the memory footprint of LLMs during inference to the key-value cache…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Cheng Luo , Zefan Cai , Hanshi Sun , Jinqi Xiao , Bo Yuan , Wen Xiao , Junjie Hu , Jiawei Zhao , Beidi Chen , Anima Anandkumar

As modern LLMs support thousands to millions of tokens, KV caches grow to hundreds of gigabytes, stressing memory capacity and bandwidth. Existing solutions, such as KV cache pruning and offloading, alleviate these but underutilize hardware…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mao Lin , Xi Wang , Guilherme Cox , Dong Li , Hyeran Jeon

LLMs often struggle with memory-constrained deployment on consumer-grade hardware due to their massive parameter sizes. While existing solutions such as model compression and offloading improve deployment feasibility, they often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shen Xu , Xiangwen Zhuge , Zhe Xu , Yingkun Hu , Zheng Yang , Yunhao Liu

In this paper, we propose a general digital twin edge computing network comprising multiple vehicles and a server. Each vehicle generates multiple computing tasks within a time slot, leading to queuing challenges when offloading tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Qiong Wu , Yu Xie , Pingyi Fan , Dong Qin , Kezhi Wang , Nan Cheng , Khaled B. Letaief

Machine Learning (ML) applications on healthcare can have a great impact on people's lives helping deliver better and timely treatment to those in need. At the same time, medical data is usually big and sparse requiring important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Dianbo Liu , Nestor Sepulveda , Ming Zheng

Tensor networks have proven to be a valuable tool, for instance, in the classical simulation of (strongly correlated) quantum systems. As the size of the systems increases, contracting larger tensor networks becomes computationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Manuel Geiger , Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

To cope with the unprecedented surge in demand for data computing for the applications, the promising concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the network edges to provide closer data processing for mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Qiqi Ren , Jian Chen , Omid Abbasi , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu , F. Richard Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform zero-shot learning on unseen tasks and few-shot learning on complex reasoning tasks. However, resource-limited mobile edge networks struggle to support long-context LLM serving for LLM agents during…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Christopher G. Brinton

Hardware based memory pooling enabled by interconnect standards like CXL have been gaining popularity amongst cloud providers and system integrators. While pooling memory resources has cost benefits, it comes at a penalty of increased…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Chandrahas Tirumalasetty , Narasimha Annapreddy

The Compute Express Link (CXL) is an open industry-standard interconnect between processors and devices such as accelerators, memory buffers, smart network interfaces, persistent memory, and solid-state drives. CXL offers coherency and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Debendra Das Sharma , Robert Blankenship , Daniel S. Berger

The Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect makes it feasible to integrate diverse types of memory into servers via its byte-addressable SerDes links. Considering the various access latency, harnessing the full potential of CXL-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zhe Zhou , Yiqi Chen , Tao Zhang , Yang Wang , Ran Shu , Shuotao Xu , Peng Cheng , Lei Qu , Yongqiang Xiong , Jie Zhang , Guangyu Sun

In recent studies, researchers have developed various computation offloading frameworks for bringing cloud services closer to the user via edge networks. Specifically, an edge device needs to offload computationally intensive tasks because…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Andrew Crutcher , Caleb Koch , Kyle Coleman , Jon Patman , Flavio Esposito , Prasad Calyam

In Covid-19 pandemic, the number of users connecting to the Internet using mobile devices increased. People are doing there every task using mobile phones [16]. These devices are battery-powered and have limited computation capabilities.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Arsalan Liaqat , Saqib Ilyas , Ghazala Mushtaq

Computation offloading becomes useful for users of limited computing power and mobile edge computing (MEC) can help mobile users perform their tasks more effectively. In this paper, we consider MEC when users perform tasks with local data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinho Choi

Large Language Models are increasingly being deployed in datacenters. Serving these models requires careful memory management, as their memory usage includes static weights, dynamic activations, and key-value caches. While static weights…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiale Xu , Rui Zhang , Yi Xiong , Cong Guo , Zihan Liu , Yangjie Zhou , Weiming Hu , Hao Wu , Changxu Shao , Ziqing Wang , Yongjie Yuan , Junping Zhao , Minyi Guo , Jingwen Leng