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The advent of ultra-low-bit LLM models (1/1.58/2-bit), which match the perplexity and end-task performance of their full-precision counterparts using the same model size, is ushering in a new era of LLM inference for resource-constrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Evangelos Georganas , Dhiraj Kalamkar , Alexander Heinecke

Offloading compute intensive nested loops to execute on FPGA accelerators have been demonstrated by numerous researchers as an effective performance enhancement technique across numerous application domains. To construct such accelerators…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Cheng Liu , Ho-Cheung Ng , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on mobile devices is an emerging trend to enable data privacy and offline accessibility of LLM applications. Modern mobile neural processing units (NPUs) make such deployment increasingly feasible.…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yongsheng Yan , Jiacheng Shen , Xuchuan Luo , Yangfan Zhou

Cloud-based large language models (LLMs) and their variants have significantly influenced real-world applications. Deploying smaller models (i.e., small language models (SLMs)) on edge devices offers additional advantages, such as reduced…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Md Romyull Islam , Bobin Deng , Nobel Dhar , Tu N. Nguyen , Selena He , Yong Shi , Kun Suo

Emerging intelligent service scenarios in 6G communication impose stringent requirements for low latency, high reliability, and privacy preservation. Generative large language models (LLMs) are gradually becoming key enablers for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Pengyan Zhu , Tingting Yang

This paper investigates compact large language model (LLM) deployment and world-model-assisted inference offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. We first propose an edge compact LLM deployment (ECLD) framework that jointly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ruichen Zhang , Xiaofeng Luo , Jiayi He , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Yonghui Li

Large language model (LLM) inference has been a prevalent demand in daily life and industries. The large tensor sizes and computing complexities in LLMs have brought challenges to memory, computing, and databus. This paper proposes a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yimin Wang , Yue Jiet Chong , Xuanyao Fong

Training large language models (LLMs) at the network edge faces fundamental challenges arising from device resource constraints, severe data heterogeneity, and heightened privacy risks. To address these challenges, we propose ELSA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaohong Yang , Tong Xie , Minghui Liwang , Chikai Shang , Yang Lu , Zhenzhen Jiao , Liqun Fu , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour

As the need for edge computing grows, many modern consumer devices now contain edge machine learning (ML) accelerators that can compute a wide range of neural network (NN) models while still fitting within tight resource constraints. We…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Amirali Boroumand , Saugata Ghose , Berkin Akin , Ravi Narayanaswami , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Xiaoyu Ma , Eric Shiu , Onur Mutlu

Accurate and fast performance prediction for dataflow-based accelerators is vital for efficient hardware design and design space exploration, yet existing methods struggle to generalize across architectures, applications, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kaiyan Chang , Wenlong Zhu , Shengwen Liang , Huawei Li , Ying Wang

The latency and power consumption of large language models (LLMs) are major constraints when serving them across a wide spectrum of hardware platforms, from mobile edge devices to cloud GPU clusters. Benchmarking is crucial for optimizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hung-Yueh Chiang , Bokun Wang , Diana Marculescu

The challenges involved in executing neural networks (NNs) at the edge include providing diversity, flexibility, and sustainability. That implies, for instance, supporting evolving applications and algorithms energy-efficiently. Using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Federico Manca , Francesco Ratto , Francesca Palumbo

The rising computational and energy demands of deep learning, particularly in large-scale architectures such as foundation models and large language models (LLMs), pose significant challenges to sustainability. Traditional gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour , Huaiyuan Chu , Yanqing Zhang

In this paper, we propose PIM-LLM, a hybrid architecture developed to accelerate 1-bit large language models (LLMs). PIM-LLM leverages analog processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures and digital systolic arrays to accelerate low-precision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jinendra Malekar , Peyton Chandarana , Md Hasibul Amin , Mohammed E. Elbtity , Ramtin Zand

Neural networks have become dominant computational workloads across cloud and edge platforms, but their rapid growth in model size and deployment diversity has exposed hardware bottlenecks increasingly dominated by memory movement,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Bin Xu , Ayan Banerjee , Sandeep Gupta

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,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jianing Zheng , Gang Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as LLaMA and DeepSeek, are built on transformer architectures, which have become a standard model for achieving state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing tasks. Recently, there has been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bas Ahn , Xingjian Tao , Manil Dev Gomony , Marc Geilen , Henk Corporaal

Modern multicore systems are migrating from homogeneous systems to heterogeneous systems with accelerator-based computing in order to overcome the barriers of performance and power walls. In this trend, FPGA-based accelerators are becoming…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zhe Lin , Sharad Sinha , Hao Liang , Liang Feng , Wei Zhang

With the rapid development of in-depth learning, neural network and deep learning algorithms have been widely used in various fields, e.g., image, video and voice processing. However, the neural network model is getting larger and larger,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xuehai Zhou , Huaping Chen

FPGAs are increasingly adopted in datacenter environments for their reconfigurability and energy efficiency. High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools have eased FPGA programming by raising the abstraction level from RTL to untimed C/C++, yet…

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