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Streaming video large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for real-time multimodal tasks such as video captioning, question answering, conversational agents, and augmented reality. However, these models face fundamental memory and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Donghyuk Kim , Sejeong Yang , Wonjin Shin , Joo-Young Kim

The field of distributed machine learning (ML) faces increasing demands for scalable and cost-effective training solutions, particularly in the context of large, complex models. Serverless computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amine Barrak , Fabio Petrillo , Fehmi Jaafar

We propose ReKV, a novel training-free approach that enables efficient streaming video question-answering (StreamingVQA), by seamlessly integrating with existing Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs). Traditional VideoQA systems struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shangzhe Di , Zhelun Yu , Guanghao Zhang , Haoyuan Li , Tao Zhong , Hao Cheng , Bolin Li , Wanggui He , Fangxun Shu , Hao Jiang

This paper introduces an efficient Vision-Language Model (VLM) pipeline specifically optimized for deployment on embedded devices, such as those used in robotics and autonomous driving. The pipeline significantly reduces the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jin Huang , Yuchao Jin , Le An , Josh Park

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming ubiquitous across industries, where applications demand they fulfill diverse user intents. However, developers currently face the challenge of manually exploring numerous deployment configurations -…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Dimitrios Liakopoulos , Tianrui Hu , Prasoon Sinha , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the demand for high-performance LLM inference services continues to grow. To meet this demand, a growing number of AI accelerators have been proposed, such as Google TPU, Huawei…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Tianhao Zhu , Dahu Feng , Erhu Feng , Yubin Xia

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have rapidly progressed with the recent success of large language models. However, there have been few attempts to incorporate efficient linear Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) architectures into VLMs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Haowen Hou , Peigen Zeng , Fei Ma , Fei Richard Yu

Distributed prefix caching has become a core technique for efficient LLM serving. However, for long-context requests with high cache hit ratios, retrieving reusable KVCache blocks from remote servers has emerged as a new performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Weiye Wang , Chen Chen , Junxue Zhang , Zhusheng Wang , Hui Yuan , Zixuan Guan , Xiaolong Zheng , Qizhen Weng , Yin Chen , Minyi Guo

In this study, we identify the inefficient attention phenomena in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), notably within prominent models like LLaVA-1.5, QwenVL-Chat and Video-LLaVA. We find out that the attention computation over visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Liang Chen , Haozhe Zhao , Tianyu Liu , Shuai Bai , Junyang Lin , Chang Zhou , Baobao Chang

Integrating GPUs into serverless computing platforms is crucial for improving efficiency. However, existing solutions for GPU-enabled serverless computing platforms face two significant problems due to coarse-grained GPU management: long…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Han Zhao , Weihao Cui , Quan Chen , Shulai Zhang , Zijun Li , Jingwen Leng , Chao Li , Deze Zeng , Minyi Guo

Inference on large-language models (LLMs) is constrained by GPU memory capacity. A sudden increase in the number of inference requests to a cloud-hosted LLM can deplete GPU memory, leading to contention between multiple prompts for limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Abhishek Vijaya Kumar , Gianni Antichi , Rachee Singh

We present Megaverse, a new 3D simulation platform for reinforcement learning and embodied AI research. The efficient design of our engine enables physics-based simulation with high-dimensional egocentric observations at more than 1,000,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Aleksei Petrenko , Erik Wijmans , Brennan Shacklett , Vladlen Koltun

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a prominent paradigm for embodied intelligence, yet further performance improvements typically rely on scaling up training data and model size -- an approach that is prohibitively expensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Mingtong Dai , Lingbo Liu , Yongjie Bai , Yang Liu , Zhouxia Wang , Rui SU , Chunjie Chen , Liang Lin , Xinyu Wu

GPU singletasking is becoming increasingly inefficient and unsustainable as hardware capabilities grow and workloads diversify. We are now at an inflection point where GPUs must embrace multitasking, much like CPUs did decades ago, to meet…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jiarong Xing , Yifan Qiao , Simon Mo , Xingqi Cui , Gur-Eyal Sela , Yang Zhou , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

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

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

Modern GPU software stacks demand developers who can anticipate performance bottlenecks before ever launching a kernel; misjudging floating-point workloads upstream can derail tuning, scheduling, and even hardware procurement. Yet despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gregory Bolet , Giorgis Georgakoudis , Konstantinos Parasyris , Harshitha Menon , Niranjan Hasabnis , Kirk W. Cameron , Gal Oren

Most Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) algorithms require a prohibitively large number of training samples for learning complex tasks. Many recent works on speeding up Deep RL have focused on distributed training and simulation. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jacky Liang , Viktor Makoviychuk , Ankur Handa , Nuttapong Chentanez , Miles Macklin , Dieter Fox

Deploying deep neural networks on mobile devices is increasingly important but remains challenging due to limited computing resources. On the other hand, their unified memory architecture and narrower gap between CPU and GPU performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm requires a high computational cost (both in memory and time) to solve a complex quadratic programming (QP) optimization problem during the training process. Consequently, SVM necessitates high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Islam Elgarhy