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The computational difficulties of large language model (LLM) inference remain a significant obstacle to their widespread deployment. The need for many applications to support long input sequences and process them in large batches typically…
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Continuous edge inference necessitates not merely low per-timeslot latency, but sustained timeliness guarantees in the presence of time-varying channels, fluctuating edge workloads, and coupled bandwidth-computing resource constraints.…
Generative recommendation (GR) models possess greater scaling power compared to traditional deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs), yet they also impose a tremendous increase in computational burden. Measured in FLOPs, a typical GR…
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Large Language Models face an emerging and critical threat known as latency attacks. Because LLM inference is inherently expensive, even modest slowdowns can translate into substantial operating costs and severe availability risks.…
Realistic evaluation of LLM serving systems requires online workloads, dynamic arrivals, queueing, and the serving engine's local scheduling for execution batching, but running such experiments on GPUs is expensive. Existing simulators…
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Serverless Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a cost-effective solution for deploying AI services by enabling a 'pay-as-you-go' pricing model through GPU resource sharing. However, cold-start latency, especially the model loading…