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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in production, contributing towards shifting the burden in terms of computational resources and energy demands from training to inference. While prior work has examined the energy cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Julien Delavande , Regis Pierrard , Sasha Luccioni

Serving large language models (LLMs) is expensive, especially for providers hosting many models, making cost reduction essential. The unique workload patterns of serving multiple LLMs (i.e., multi-LLM serving) create new opportunities and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shan Yu , Jiarong Xing , Yifan Qiao , Mingyuan Ma , Yangmin Li , Yang Wang , Shuo Yang , Zhiqiang Xie , Shiyi Cao , Ke Bao , Ion Stoica , Harry Xu , Ying Sheng

In this paper, we present a novel method that reduces model inference latency during distributed deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). Our contribution is an optimized inference deployment scheme that address the current limitations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Adnan Hoque , Mudhakar Srivatsa , Chih-Chieh Yang , Raghu Ganti

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

Inference serving for large language models (LLMs) is the key to unleashing their potential in people's daily lives. However, efficient LLM serving remains challenging today because the requests are inherently heterogeneous and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Biao Sun , Ziming Huang , Hanyu Zhao , Wencong Xiao , Xinyi Zhang , Yong Li , Wei Lin

Large multimodal models (LMMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in understanding images, videos, and audio beyond text. However, efficiently serving LMMs in production environments poses significant challenges due to their complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Haoran Qiu , Anish Biswas , Zihan Zhao , Jayashree Mohan , Alind Khare , Esha Choukse , Íñigo Goiri , Zeyu Zhang , Haiying Shen , Chetan Bansal , Ramachandran Ramjee , Rodrigo Fonseca

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly capable at small parameter scales. At the same time, conventional cloud-centric deployment introduces challenges around data privacy, latency, and cost that are acute in operational…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Harri Renney , Fouad Trad , Michael Mattarock , Zena Wood

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various artificial intelligence tasks. However, their enormous sizes and computational demands pose significant challenges for the deployment on edge devices. To address…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Kai Zhang , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Large language models have significantly transformed multiple fields with their exceptional performance in natural language tasks, but their deployment in resource-constrained environments like edge networks presents an ongoing challenge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Aria Khoshsirat , Giovanni Perin , Michele Rossi

Large language models~(LLMs) are known for their high demand on computing resources and memory due to their substantial model size, which leads to inefficient inference on moderate GPU systems. Techniques like quantization or pruning can…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenxiang Lin , Xinglin Pan , Shaohuai Shi , Xuan Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) can benefit immensely from parallelizing both the model and input requests across multiple devices, but incoming workloads exhibit substantial spatial and temporal heterogeneity. Spatially, workloads…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Youhe Jiang , Fangcheng Fu , Taiyi Wang , Guoliang He , Eiko Yoneki

The increasing demand for Large Language Models (LLMs) across various applications has led to a significant shift in the design of deep learning serving systems. Deploying LLMs, particularly in multi-tenant environments, poses substantial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Bodun Hu , Jiamin Li , Le Xu , Myungjin Lee , Akshay Jajoo , Geon-Woo Kim , Hong Xu , Aditya Akella

Current large language model (LLM) serving systems, primarily designed for text completion, are neither efficient nor adaptable for increasingly complex LLM applications due to their inflexible design. We propose a new LLM serving system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 In Gim , Lin Zhong

Decentralized learning has emerged as an alternative method to the popular parameter-server framework which suffers from high communication burden, single-point failure and scalability issues due to the need of a central server. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guojun Xiong , Gang Yan , Shiqiang Wang , Jian Li

The ever-increasing size of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) renders local deployment impractical for individual users. Decentralized computing has emerged as a cost-effective solution, allowing individuals and small companies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yifan Sun , Yuhang Li , Yue Zhang , Yuchen Jin , Huan Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have a natural role in answering complex queries about data streams, but the high computational cost of LLM inference makes them infeasible in many such tasks. We propose online cascade learning, the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lunyiu Nie , Zhimin Ding , Erdong Hu , Christopher Jermaine , Swarat Chaudhuri

Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) offer a compelling alternative to Auto-Regressive models, but their deployment is constrained by high decoding cost. In this work, we identify a key inefficiency in DLLM decoding: while computation is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kaihua Liang , Xin Tan , An Zhong , Hong Xu , Marco Canini

Generative large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention due to their exceptional capabilities in various AI tasks. Traditionally deployed in cloud datacenters, LLMs are now increasingly moving towards more accessible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Shengyuan Ye , Bei Ouyang , Liekang Zeng , Tianyi Qian , Xiaowen Chu , Jian Tang , Xu Chen

Augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) enhance the capabilities of standalone LLMs by integrating external data sources through API calls. In interactive LLM applications, efficient scheduling is crucial for maintaining low request…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Rana Shahout , Cong Liang , Shiji Xin , Qianru Lao , Yong Cui , Minlan Yu , Michael Mitzenmacher

Deep Learning (DL) models have achieved superior performance. Meanwhile, computing hardware like NVIDIA GPUs also demonstrated strong computing scaling trends with 2x throughput and memory bandwidth for each generation. With such strong…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Fuxun Yu , Di Wang , Longfei Shangguan , Minjia Zhang , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen