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The rapid growth of LLMs demands high-throughput, memory-capacity-intensive inference on resource-constrained edge devices, where single-batch decoding remains fundamentally memory-bound. Existing out-of-core GPU-based and SSD-like…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the new foundation for many applications, reshaping human society like a storm. Disaggregated inference, which separates prefill and decode stages, is a promising approach to improving hardware…

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As the size of DLRMs gets larger, the models must be partitioned across multiple GPUs or nodes of GPUs due to the size limitation of total HBM memory that can be packaged in a GPU. This partitioning adds communication and synchronization…

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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides cloud and IT services within the proximity of the mobile user. With the increasing number of mobile applications, mobile devices (MD) encounter limitations of their…

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The rise of LLMs has driven demand for private serverless deployments, characterized by moderate-sized models and infrequent requests. While existing serverless solutions follow exclusive GPU allocation, we take a step back to explore…

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Recent approaches to distributed model fitting rely heavily on consensus ADMM, where each node solves small sub-problems using only local data. We propose iterative methods that solve {\em global} sub-problems over an entire distributed…

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Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

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The past few years has witnessed specialized large language model (LLM) inference systems, such as vLLM, SGLang, Mooncake, and DeepFlow, alongside rapid LLM adoption via services like ChatGPT. Driving these system design efforts is the…

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Existing memory management mechanisms used in commodity computing machines typically adopt hardware based address interleaving and OS directed random memory allocation to service generic application requests. These conventional memory…

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Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, necessitate substantial GPU memory and consume significant computational resources. Beyond the memory taken up by model weights, the memory…

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Many cluster management systems (CMSs) have been proposed to share a single cluster with multiple distributed computing systems. However, none of the existing approaches can handle distributed machine learning (ML) workloads given the…

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By exploiting the superiority of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), NOMA-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) can provide scalable and low-latency computing services for the Internet of Things. However, given the prevalent stochasticity of…

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Deploying large language models (LLMs) on edge devices is crucial for delivering fast responses and ensuring data privacy. However, the limited storage, weight, and power of edge devices make it difficult to deploy LLM-powered applications.…

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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

The high memory and computation demand of large language models (LLMs) makes them challenging to be deployed on consumer devices due to limited GPU memory. Offloading can mitigate the memory constraint but often suffers from low GPU…

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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we propose a novel offloading learning approach to compromise energy consumption and latency in multi-tier network with mobile edge computing. In order to solve this integer programming problem, instead of using conventional…

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