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Inference-time techniques, such as repeated sampling or iterative revisions, are emerging as powerful ways to enhance large-language models (LLMs) at test time. However, best practices for developing systems that combine these techniques…

Training and serving long-context large language models (LLMs) incurs substantial overhead. To address this, two critical steps are often required: a pretrained LLM typically undergoes a separate stage for context length extension by…

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Edge-cloud collaborative inference is becoming a practical necessity for LLM-powered edge devices: on-device models often cannot afford the required reasoning capability, while cloud-only inference could be prohibitively costly and slow…

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Serving generative inference of the large language model is a crucial component of contemporary AI applications. This paper focuses on deploying such services in a heterogeneous and cross-datacenter setting to mitigate the substantial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Youhe Jiang , Ran Yan , Xiaozhe Yao , Yang Zhou , Beidi Chen , Binhang Yuan

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

This work develops an LLM-based optimization framework ensuring strict constraint satisfaction in network optimization. While LLMs possess contextual reasoning capabilities, existing approaches often fail to enforce constraints, causing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Youngjin Song , Wookjin Lee , Hong Ki Kim , Sang Hyun Lee

The integration of generative AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), into real-time multi-model AI applications such as video conferencing and gaming is giving rise to a new class of workloads: real-time generative AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rachid Karami , Rajeev Patwari , Hyoukjun Kwon , Ashish Sirasao

The growing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various domains has driven the demand for efficient and scalable AI-serving solutions. Deploying LLMs requires optimizations to manage their significant computational and data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Junsoo Kim , Hunjong Lee , Geonwoo Ko , Gyubin Choi , Seri Ham , Seongmin Hong , Joo-Young Kim

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to the long-dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm, offering a parallelable decoding process that could yield greater efficiency. Yet, in practice, current open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Han Peng , Peiyu Liu , Zican Dong , Daixuan Cheng , Junyi Li , Yiru Tang , Shuo Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm. By generating tokens in parallel through an iterative denoising process, DLMs possess inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Tianyi Li , Mingda Chen , Bowei Guo , Zhiqiang Shen

The growing demand for intelligent services on resource-constrained edge devices has spurred the development of collaborative inference systems that distribute workloads across end devices, edge servers, and the cloud. While most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Seohyeon Cha , Kevin Chan , Gustavo de Veciana , Haris Vikalo

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate exceptional capabilities in semantic understanding and visual reasoning, yet they still face challenges in precise object localization and resource-constrained edge-cloud deployment. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yunqing Hu , Zheming Yang , Chang Zhao , Qi Guo , Meng Gao , Pengcheng Li , Wen Ji

Despite the recent advances in the video understanding ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), long video understanding remains a challenge. One of the main issues is that the number of vision tokens grows linearly with video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Siyou Li , Huanan Wu , Juexi Shao , Yinghao Ma , Yujian Gan , Yihao Luo , Yuwei Wang , Dong Nie , Lu Wang , Wenqing Wu , Le Zhang , Massimo Poesio , Juntao Yu

The computational and memory demands of large language models for generative inference present significant challenges for practical deployment. One promising solution targeting offline inference is offloading-based batched inference, which…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Hongsun Jang , Jaeyong Song , Changmin Shin , Si Ung Noh , Jaewon Jung , Jisung Park , Jinho Lee

Large language models (LLMs) propel the prosperity of interactive AI applications showcased by ChatGPT that demand timely response of inference services. However, LLM inference is computation intensive and memory intensive, and improper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yuqing Yang , Yuedong Xu , Lei Jiao

The paradigm of Large Language Models is undergoing a fundamental transition from static inference engines to dynamic autonomous cognitive systems.While current research primarily focuses on scaling context windows or optimizing prompt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 ChengYou Li , XiaoDong Liu , XiangBao Meng , XinYu Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel across a variety of language tasks yet are constrained by limited input lengths and high computational costs. Existing approaches\textemdash such as relative positional encodings (e.g., RoPE, ALiBi) and…

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We present a novel active learning framework for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation that, for the first time, integrates large language models (LLMs) to construct hierarchical label structures and guide uncertainty-based sample selection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chenxi Li , Nuo Chen , Fengyun Tan , Yantong Chen , Bochun Yuan , Tianrui Li , Chongshou Li

Emerging applications -- cloud computing, the internet of things, and augmented/virtual reality -- demand responsive, secure, and scalable datacenter networks. These networks currently implement simple, per-packet, data-plane heuristics…

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Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs for text generation, with the potential to decode multiple tokens in a single iteration. However, none of the existing open-source…

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