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The NVIDIA Collective Communication Library (NCCL) is a critical software layer enabling high-performance collectives on large-scale GPU clusters. Despite being open source with a documented API, its internal design remains largely opaque.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhiyi Hu , Siyuan Shen , Tommaso Bonato , Sylvain Jeaugey , Cedell Alexander , Eric Spada , James Dinan , Jeff Hammond , Torsten Hoefler

Personality detection automatically identifies an individual's personality from various data sources, such as social media texts. However, as the parameter scale of language models continues to grow, the computational cost becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lingzhi Shen , Yunfei Long , Xiaohao Cai , Guanming Chen , Imran Razzak , Shoaib Jameel

Large Language Models (LLMs) are distinguished by their massive parameter counts, which typically result in significant redundancy. This work introduces MaskLLM, a learnable pruning method that establishes Semi-structured (or ``N:M'')…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gongfan Fang , Hongxu Yin , Saurav Muralidharan , Greg Heinrich , Jeff Pool , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov , Xinchao Wang

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates a deep understanding of their fundamental performance limits. This paper investigates the limits of LLM inference, focusing on hardware-imposed bottlenecks in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Michael Davies , Neal Crago , Karthikeyan Sankaralingam , Christos Kozyrakis

Large Language Model (LLM) inference is rapidly becoming a core datacenter service, yet current serving stacks keep the host CPU on the critical path for orchestration and token-level control. This makes LLM performance sensitive to CPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mohammad Siavashi , Mariano Scazzariello , Gerald Q. Maguire , Dejan Kostić , Marco Chiesa

Large language model (LLM) serving demands low latency and high throughput, but high load variability makes it challenging to achieve high GPU utilization. In this paper, we identify a synergetic but overlooked opportunity to co-serve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yifan Qiao , Shu Anzai , Shan Yu , Haoran Ma , Shuo Yang , Yang Wang , Miryung Kim , Yongji Wu , Yang Zhou , Jiarong Xing , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Harry Xu

We introduce a cryptographic method to hide an arbitrary secret payload in the response of a Large Language Model (LLM). A secret key is required to extract the payload from the model's response, and without the key it is provably…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Or Zamir

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in register-transfer level (RTL) design automation, but direct RTL generation remains difficult to validate, optimize, and integrate with compiler-based hardware design flows. Hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shuo Yin , Yihe Wang , Lancheng Zou , Xufeng Yao , Tinghuan Chen , Chen Bai , Zhengrong Wang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Bei Yu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained to abstain on difficult questions by answering unknown. However, we observe that LLMs often misuse this option: they output unknown even when LLMs can actually solve the questions, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zipeng Ling , Yuehao Tang , Shuliang Liu , Junqi Yang , Shenghong Fu , Chen Huang , Kejia Huang , Yao Wan , Zhichao Hou , Xuming Hu

Recently, there has been a surge in the development of advanced intelligent generative content (AIGC), especially large language models (LLMs). However, for many downstream tasks, it is necessary to fine-tune LLMs using private data. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zihan Fang , Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Xianhao Chen , Yue Gao , Yuguang Fang

This work elaborates on a High performance computing (HPC) architecture based on Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) [1] for deploying heterogeneous Large Language Models (LLMs) into a scalable inference engine. Dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Anderson de Lima Luiz , Shubham Vijay Kurlekar , Munir Georges

Large language models (LLMs) have surged in popularity and are extensively used in commercial applications, where the efficiency of model serving is crucial for the user experience. Most current research focuses on optimizing individual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yuhang Yao , Han Jin , Alay Dilipbhai Shah , Shanshan Han , Zijian Hu , Yide Ran , Dimitris Stripelis , Zhaozhuo Xu , Salman Avestimehr , Chaoyang He

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have achieved huge success in the natural language processing (NLP) field, driving a growing demand to extend their deployment from the cloud to edge devices. However, deploying LLMs on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yanbiao Liang , Huihong Shi , Haikuo Shao , Zhongfeng Wang

Automated molecular structure elucidation remains challenging, as existing approaches often depend on pre-compiled databases or restrict themselves to single spectroscopic modalities. Here we introduce SpectraLLM, a large language model…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-12 Yunyue Su , Jiahui Chen , Zao Jiang , Zhenyi Zhong , Liang Wang , Qiang Liu , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Large Language Model (LLM) is changing the software development paradigm and has gained huge attention from both academia and industry. Researchers and developers collaboratively explore how to leverage the powerful problem-solving ability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Qiang Hu , Xiaofei Xie , Sen Chen , Lei Ma

Multimodal large language model (MLLM) inference splits into two phases with opposing hardware demands: vision encoding is compute-bound, while language generation is memory-bandwidth-bound. We show that under standard transformer KV…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Donglin Yu

Latency-sensitive inference on shared A100 clusters often suffers noisy-neighbor interference on the PCIe fabric, inflating tail latency and SLO violations. We present a fabric-agnostic, VM-deployable host-level controller that combines…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Erfan Darzi , Shreeanant Bharadwaj , Sree Bhargavi Balija

Modern GPU software stacks demand developers who can anticipate performance bottlenecks before ever launching a kernel; misjudging floating-point workloads upstream can derail tuning, scheduling, and even hardware procurement. Yet despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gregory Bolet , Giorgis Georgakoudis , Konstantinos Parasyris , Harshitha Menon , Niranjan Hasabnis , Kirk W. Cameron , Gal Oren

Pipeline parallelism (PP) is widely used for training large language models (LLMs), yet its scalability is often constrained by high activation memory consumption as the number of in-flight microbatches grows with the degree of PP. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xinyi Wan , Penghui Qi , Guangxing Huang , Min Lin , Jialin Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically trained in two phases: pre-training on large internet-scale datasets, and fine-tuning for downstream tasks. Given the higher computational demand of pre-training, it's intuitive to assume that…

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