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Transformers, driven by attention mechanisms, form the foundation of large language models (LLMs). As these models scale up, efficient GPU attention kernels become essential for high-throughput and low-latency inference. Diverse LLM…

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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional proficiency in understanding and generating human language, but efficient inference on resource-constrained embedded devices remains challenging due to large model sizes and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Weihong Xu , Haein Choi , Po-kai Hsu , Shimeng Yu , Tajana Rosing

We propose DFModel, a modeling framework for mapping dataflow computation graphs onto large-scale systems. Mapping a workload to a system requires optimizing dataflow mappings at various levels, including the inter-chip (between chips)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sho Ko , Nathan Zhang , Olivia Hsu , Ardavan Pedram , Kunle Olukotun

The ongoing shift of cloud services from monolithic designs to microservices creates high demand for efficient and high performance datacenter networking stacks, optimized for fine-grained workloads. Commodity networking systems based on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Nikita Lazarev , Shaojie Xiang , Neil Adit , Zhiru Zhang , Christina Delimitrou

Spatial dataflow architectures such as reconfigurable dataflow accelerators (RDA) can provide much higher performance and efficiency than CPUs and GPUs. In particular, vectorized reconfigurable dataflow accelerators (vRDA) in recent…

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This paper proposes an optimized mapping of the FIR filter algorithm that enhances the rate of a reconfigurable computer over a basic mapping previously proposed [1]. It also presents a new interconnection scheme in the reconfigurable part…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Hassan Diab , Issam Damaj , Fadi Kurdahi

In this paper, we propose LoopLynx, a scalable dataflow architecture for efficient LLM inference that optimizes FPGA usage through a hybrid spatial-temporal design. The design of LoopLynx incorporates a hybrid temporal-spatial architecture,…

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Deploying pretrained visual models in real-world environments often suffers from significant performance degradation due to the diversity of testing scenarios. Continuous adaptation of learning models on edge devices via unlabeled data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jianming Lv , Chengjun Wang , Depin Liang , Qianli Ma , Wei Chen , Xueqi Cheng

AI deployment increasingly resembles a pipeline of data transformation, fine-tuning, and agent interactions rather than a monolithic LLM job; recent examples include RLHF/RLAIF training and agentic workflows. To cope with this shift, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Junyi Shen , Noppanat Wadlom , Lingfeng Zhou , Dequan Wang , Xu Miao , Lei Fang , Yao Lu

To satisfy the expected plethora of computation-heavy applications, federated edge learning (FEEL) is a new paradigm featuring distributed learning to carry the capacities of low-latency and privacy-preserving. To further improve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Jun Du , Bingqing Jiang , Chunxiao Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Zhu Han

Machine learning (ML) inference serving systems host deep neural network (DNN) models and schedule incoming inference requests across deployed GPUs. However, limited support for task prioritization and insufficient latency estimation under…

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Efficient deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), such as Large Language Models (LLMs), on tensor accelerators is essential for maximizing computational efficiency in modern AI systems. However, achieving this is challenging due to the…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered a lot of recent interest because of their success in learning representations from graph-structured data across several critical applications in cloud and HPC. Owing to their unique compute and…

Network traffic analysis increasingly uses complex machine learning models as the internet consolidates and traffic gets more encrypted. However, over high-bandwidth networks, flows can easily arrive faster than model inference rates. The…

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Deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly being accelerated on application-specific hardware such as the Google TPU designed especially for deep learning. Timing speculation is a promising approach to further increase the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Jeff Zhang , Siddharth Garg

The rapidly-changing deep learning landscape presents a unique opportunity for building inference accelerators optimized for specific datacenter-scale workloads. We propose Full-stack Accelerator Search Technique (FAST), a hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Dan Zhang , Safeen Huda , Ebrahim Songhori , Kartik Prabhu , Quoc Le , Anna Goldie , Azalia Mirhoseini

The integration of spiking neural networks (SNNs) with transformer-based architectures has opened new opportunities for bio-inspired low-power, event-driven visual reasoning on edge devices. However, the high temporal resolution and binary…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tamoghno Das , Khanh Phan Vu , Hanning Chen , Hyunwoo Oh , Mohsen Imani

Transformer-based models dominate modern AI workloads but exacerbate memory bottlenecks due to their quadratic attention complexity and ever-growing model sizes. Existing accelerators, such as Groq and Cerebras, mitigate off-chip traffic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jinxin Yu , Yudong Pan , Mengdi Wang , Huawei Li , Yinhe Han , Xiaowei Li , Ying Wang

Reconfigurable accelerators for deep neural networks (DNNs) promise to improve performance such as inference latency. STONNE is the first cycle-accurate simulator for reconfigurable DNN inference accelerators which allows for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Axel Stjerngren , Perry Gibson , José Cano

Accurate prediction of resource consumption and runtime for cloud workflow jobs is critical for scheduling efficiency, yet remains challenging due to the semi-structured nature of job configurations -- comprising shell commands,…

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