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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

Recent development in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have leverage Attention-based Transformer architectures and achieved superior performance and generalization capabilities. They have since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuze Zhao , Jintao Huang , Jinghan Hu , Xingjun Wang , Yunlin Mao , Daoze Zhang , Hong Zhang , Zeyinzi Jiang , Zhikai Wu , Baole Ai , Ang Wang , Wenmeng Zhou , Yingda Chen

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…

LLM inference serving typically scales out with a two-tier architecture: a cluster router distributes requests to multiple inference engines, each of which then in turn performs its own internal scheduling. However, this commonly used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yue Zhang , Yuansheng Chen , Xuan Mo , Alex Xi , Jialun Li , WeiGang Wu

Serving numerous users and requests concurrently requires good fairness in Large Language Models (LLMs) serving system. This ensures that, at the same cost, the system can meet the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) of more users , such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Ao Shen , Zhiyao Li , Mingyu Gao

Prefill-Decode (P/D) disaggregation has emerged as a widely adopted optimization strategy for Large Language Model (LLM) inference. However, there currently exists no well-established methodology for determining the optimal number of P/D…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Luchang Li , Dongfang Li , Bozhao Gong , Yu Zhang

The growing gap between the increasing complexity of large language models (LLMs) and the limited computational budgets of edge devices poses a key challenge for efficient on-device inference, despite gradual improvements in hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiangchen Li , Dimitrios Spatharakis , Saeid Ghafouri , Jiakun Fan , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Bo Ji , Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

Large Language Models (LLMs), as the foundational architecture for next-generation interactive AI applications, not only power intelligent dialogue systems but also drive the evolution of embodied intelligence on edge devices, including…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Will Chow

Large Language Model (LLM) serving systems remain fundamentally fragile, where frequent hardware faults in hyperscale clusters trigger disproportionate service outages in the software stack. Current recovery mechanisms are prohibitively…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shangshu Qian , Kipling Liu , P. C. Sruthi , Lin Tan , Yongle Zhang

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

Modern LLM serving systems confront inefficient GPU utilization due to the fundamental mismatch between compute-intensive prefill and memory-bound decode phases. While current practices attempt to address this by organizing these phases…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zejia Lin , Hongxin Xu , Guanyi Chen , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu , Xianwei Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have been a disruptive innovation in recent years, and they play a crucial role in our daily lives due to their ability to understand and generate human-like text. Their capabilities include natural language…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Akrit Mudvari , Yuang Jiang , Leandros Tassiulas

This survey offers a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) serving systems, focusing on research since the year 2023. We specifically examine system-level enhancements that improve performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Baolin Li , Yankai Jiang , Vijay Gadepally , Devesh Tiwari

Recently, there has been an extensive research effort in building efficient large language model (LLM) inference serving systems. These efforts not only include innovations in the algorithm and software domains but also constitute…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jaehong Cho , Minsu Kim , Hyunmin Choi , Guseul Heo , Jongse Park

Large language model (LLM) serving is becoming an increasingly critical workload for cloud providers. Existing LLM serving systems focus on interactive requests, such as chatbots and coding assistants, with tight latency SLO requirements.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Archit Patke , Dhemath Reddy , Saurabh Jha , Haoran Qiu , Christian Pinto , Chandra Narayanaswami , Zbigniew Kalbarczyk , Ravishankar Iyer

With the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs), multi-round workflows, such as autonomous agents and iterative retrieval, have become increasingly prevalent. However, this raises hurdles for serving LLMs under prefill-decode (PD)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wenhao He , Youhe Jiang , Penghao Zhao , Quanqing Xu , Eiko Yoneki , Bin Cui , Fangcheng Fu

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

In this paper, we propose DEEPSERVE, a scalable and serverless AI platform designed to efficiently serve large language models (LLMs) at scale in cloud environments. DEEPSERVE addresses key challenges such as resource allocation, serving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junhao Hu , Jiang Xu , Zhixia Liu , Yulong He , Yuetao Chen , Hao Xu , Jiang Liu , Jie Meng , Baoquan Zhang , Shining Wan , Gengyuan Dan , Zhiyu Dong , Zhihao Ren , Changhong Liu , Tao Xie , Dayun Lin , Qin Zhang , Yue Yu , Hao Feng , Xusheng Chen , Yizhou Shan

Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their remarkable proficiency in a range of tasks. Compared to in-house homogeneous GPU clusters, deploying LLMs in cloud environments with diverse types of GPUs is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Youhe Jiang , Fangcheng Fu , Xiaozhe Yao , Taiyi Wang , Bin Cui , Ana Klimovic , Eiko Yoneki

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…

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