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Serving large language models (LLMs) to millions of users requires efficient resource allocation and parallelism strategies. It is a labor intensive trial-and-error process to find such a strategy. We present BestServe, a novel framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Xiannan Hu , Tianyou Zeng , Xiaoming Yuan , Liwei Song , Guangyuan Zhang , Bangzheng He

High-throughput inference serving is essential for applications built on large language models (LLMs). Existing serving frameworks reduce request-level and batch-level bubbles through batching and scheduling, but often overlook bubbles…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Fengyao Bai , Hongbin Zhang , Zhitao Chen , Jiangsu Du , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu

Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) in production faces significant challenges from highly variable request patterns and severe resource fragmentation in serverless clusters. Current systems rely on static pipeline configurations that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanying Lin , Shijie Peng , Chengzhi Lu , Chengzhong Xu , Kejiang Ye

Multi-turn dialogues are essential in many real-world applications of large language models, such as chatbots and virtual assistants. As conversation histories become longer, existing large language models face increasing computational and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoyang Li , Zhanchao Xu , Yiming Li , Xuejia Chen , Darian Li , Anxin Tian , Qingfa Xiao , Cheng Deng , Jun Wang , Qing Li , Lei Chen , Mingxuan Yuan

Large language models (LLMs) with different architectures and sizes have been developed. Serving each LLM with dedicated GPUs leads to resource waste and service inefficiency due to the varying demand of LLM requests. A common practice is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yihao Zhao , Jiadun Chen , Peng Sun , Lei Li , Xuanzhe Liu , Xin Jin

Training deep learning (DL) models on petascale datasets is essential for achieving competitive and state-of-the-art performance in applications such as speech, video analytics, and object recognition. However, existing distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Alex Aizman , Gavin Maltby , Thomas Breuel

Large language model (LLM) inference serving systems are essential to various LLM-based applications. As demand for LLM services continues to grow, scaling these systems to handle high request rates while meeting latency Service-Level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Shihong Gao , Xin Zhang , Yanyan Shen , Lei Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate substantial potential across a diverse array of domains via request serving. However, as trends continue to push for expanding context sizes, the autoregressive nature of LLMs results in highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Bin Lin , Chen Zhang , Tao Peng , Hanyu Zhao , Wencong Xiao , Minmin Sun , Anmin Liu , Zhipeng Zhang , Lanbo Li , Xiafei Qiu , Shen Li , Zhigang Ji , Tao Xie , Yong Li , Wei Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized numerous domains, driving the rise of Language-Model-as-a-Service (LMaaS) platforms that process millions of queries daily. These platforms must minimize latency and meet Service Level…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhihan Jiang , Yujie Huang , Guangba Yu , Junjie Huang , Jiazhen Gu , Michael R. Lyu

This paper introduces SLOs-Serve, a system designed for serving multi-stage large language model (LLM) requests with application- and stage-specific service level objectives (SLOs). The key idea behind SLOs-Serve is to customize the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Siyuan Chen , Zhipeng Jia , Samira Khan , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Phillip B. Gibbons

The recent advances in LLMs bring a strong demand for efficient system support to improve overall serving efficiency. As LLM inference scales towards multiple GPUs and even multiple compute nodes, various coordination patterns, such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hongyi Jin , Ruihang Lai , Charlie F. Ruan , Yingcheng Wang , Todd C. Mowry , Xupeng Miao , Zhihao Jia , Tianqi Chen

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), generative large language models (LLMs) stand at the forefront, revolutionizing how we interact with our data. However, the computational intensity and memory consumption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xupeng Miao , Gabriele Oliaro , Zhihao Zhang , Xinhao Cheng , Hongyi Jin , Tianqi Chen , Zhihao Jia

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

Modern large language model (LLM) applications exhibit diverse service-level objectives (SLOs), from low-latency requirements in interactive coding assistants to more relaxed constraints in data wrangling tasks. Existing LLM serving…

Efficient LLM serving must balance throughput and latency across diverse, bursty workloads. We introduce StreamServe, a disaggregated prefill decode serving architecture that combines metric aware routing across compute lanes with adaptive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Satyam Kumar , Arpit Singh Gautam , Kailash Talreja , Saurabh Jha

Large Language Models drive a wide range of modern AI applications but impose substantial challenges on large-scale serving systems due to intensive computation, strict latency constraints, and throughput bottlenecks. We introduce…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jun Wang , Yunxiang Yao , Wenwei Kuang , Runze Mao , Zhenhao Sun , Zhuang Tao , Ziyang Zhang , Dengyu Li , Jiajun Chen , Zhili Wang , Kai Cui , Congzhi Cai , Longwen Lan , Ken Zhang

Production LLM serving must simultaneously deliver high throughput, low latency, and sufficient context capacity under non-stationary traffic and mixed request requirements. Data parallelism (DP) maximizes throughput by running independent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shouwei Gao , Junqi Yin , Feiyi Wang , Wenqian Dong

As a current trend in Artificial Intelligence (AI), large foundation models are increasingly employed as the core of AI services. However, even after training, serving such models at scale remains a challenging task due to their heavy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tingyang Sun , Ting He , I-Hong Hou

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a revolutionary advancement in the contemporary landscape of artificial general intelligence (AGI). As exemplified by ChatGPT, LLM-based applications necessitate minimal response latency and maximal…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Youpeng Zhao , Jun Wang

LLM inference must meet strict latency SLOs (e.g., 100 ms P99 time-between-tokens) while maximizing goodput. Yet, real-world variability in prompt and response lengths skews compute-intensive prefill and memory-bound decode phases, making…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Chaoyi Ruan , Yinhe Chen , Dongqi Tian , Yandong Shi , Yongji Wu , Jialin Li , Cheng Li