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Serving LLMs with a cluster of GPUs is common nowadays, where the serving system must meet strict latency SLOs required by applications. However, the stateful nature of LLM serving requires maintaining huge states (i.e., KVCache) in limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Rongxin Cheng , Yuxin Lai , Xingda Wei , Rong Chen , Haibo Chen

Efficient parallelization of Large Language Models (LLMs) with long sequences is essential but challenging due to their significant computational and memory demands, particularly stemming from communication bottlenecks in attention…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zongwu Wang , Fangxin Liu , Mingshuai Li , Li Jiang

The rapid rise of large language models (LLMs) in text streaming services has introduced significant cost and Quality of Experience (QoE) challenges in serving millions of daily requests, especially in meeting Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ting Sun , Penghan Wang , Fan Lai

The expanding context windows in large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced their capabilities in various applications, but they also introduce significant challenges in maintaining low latency, particularly in Time to First Token…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yi Xiong , Hao Wu , Changxu Shao , Ziqing Wang , Rui Zhang , Yuhong Guo , Junping Zhao , Ke Zhang , Zhenxuan Pan

Efficiently serving Large Language Models (LLMs) with persistent Prefix Key-Value (KV) Cache is critical for applications like conversational search and multi-turn dialogue. Serving a request requires loading the pre-computed prefix KV…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jing Zou , Shangyu Wu , Hancong Duan , Qiao Li , Chun Jason Xue

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

Multi-tenant AI inference platforms must balance resource utilization against service-level guarantees under variable demand. Conventional approaches fail to achieve this balance: dedicated endpoints strand capacity on idle models, while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 William J. Cunningham

Large language models now serve millions of users daily, with providers incurring costs exceeding $700,000 per day. Each request requires token-by-token inference, making GPU scheduling central to latency, capacity, and cost. The difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ruicheng Ao , Gan Luo , David Simchi-Levi , Xinshang Wang

We present TokenFlow, a novel unified image tokenizer that bridges the long-standing gap between multimodal understanding and generation. Prior research attempt to employ a single reconstruction-targeted Vector Quantization (VQ) encoder for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Liao Qu , Huichao Zhang , Yiheng Liu , Xu Wang , Yi Jiang , Yiming Gao , Hu Ye , Daniel K. Du , Zehuan Yuan , Xinglong Wu

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted due to their great performance across a wide range of applications. ChatGPT and Gemini now serve hundreds of millions of active users and handle billions of user requests per day, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhuolun Dong , Junyu Cao

Memory-to-memory data streaming is essential for modern scientific workflows that require near real-time data analysis, experimental steering, and informed decision-making during experiment execution. It eliminates the latency bottlenecks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Anjus George , Michael J. Brim , Christopher Zimmer , Tyler J. Skluzacek , A. J. Ruckman , Gustav R. Jansen , Sarp Oral

The latency bottleneck of traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems fundamentally hinders the potential of streaming large language models (LLMs) in conversational AI. These TTS systems, typically trained and inferenced on complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Richard He Bai , Zijin Gu , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Navdeep Jaitly

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven the need for more efficient serving strategies. In this context, efficiency refers to the proportion of requests that meet their Service Level Objectives (SLOs), particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Azam Ikram , Xiang Li , Sameh Elnikety , Saurabh Bagchi

Cost of serving large language models (LLM) is high, but the expensive and scarce GPUs are poorly efficient when generating tokens sequentially, unless the batch of sequences is enlarged. However, the batch size is limited by some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiaao He , Jidong Zhai

We introduce ProVideLLM, an end-to-end framework for real-time procedural video understanding. ProVideLLM integrates a multimodal cache configured to store two types of tokens - verbalized text tokens, which provide compressed textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dibyadip Chatterjee , Edoardo Remelli , Yale Song , Bugra Tekin , Abhay Mittal , Bharat Bhatnagar , Necati Cihan Camgöz , Shreyas Hampali , Eric Sauser , Shugao Ma , Angela Yao , Fadime Sener

This paper presents LMStream, which ensures bounded latency while maximizing the throughput on the GPU-enabled micro-batch streaming systems. The main ideas behind LMStream's design can be summarized as two novel mechanisms: (1) dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Suyeon Lee , Sungyong Park

Distributed LLM serving is costly and often underutilizes hardware accelerators due to three key challenges: bubbles in pipeline-parallel deployments caused by the bimodal latency of prompt and token processing, GPU memory overprovisioning,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Foteini Strati , Sara Mcallister , Amar Phanishayee , Jakub Tarnawski , Ana Klimovic

Network traffic analysis increasingly uses complex machine learning models as the internet consolidates and traffic gets more encrypted. However, over high-bandwidth networks, flows can easily arrive faster than model inference rates. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shinan Liu , Ted Shaowang , Gerry Wan , Jeewon Chae , Jonatas Marques , Sanjay Krishnan , Nick Feamster

In long-context Large Language Model (LLM) inference, the Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) latency incurred by the prefill stage has become the foremost bottleneck limiting interactive performance and deployment cost. KV Cache reuse offers a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fei li , Song Liu , Yan Liu , Jinhua Cui , Shiqiang Nie , Jinyu Wang , Weiguo Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated extraordinary performance across a broad array of applications, from traditional language processing tasks to interpreting structured sequences like time-series data. Yet, their effectiveness…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Shuhao Zhang , Xianzhi Zeng , Yuhao Wu , Zhonghao Yang