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Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on mobile devices presents a significant challenge due to their extensive memory requirements. In this paper, we introduce LinguaLinked, a system for decentralized, distributed LLM inference on…

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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

The inference of Neural Networks is usually restricted by the resources (e.g., computing power, memory, bandwidth) on edge devices. In addition to improving the hardware design and deploying efficient models, it is possible to aggregate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jun-Liang Lin , Sheng-De Wang

There is a broad consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) will be a defining component of the sixth-generation (6G) networks. As a specific instance, AI-empowered sensing will gather and process environmental perception data at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhanwei Wang , Anders E. Kalør , You Zhou , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

Network device and system health management is the foundation of modern network operations and maintenance. Traditional health management methods, relying on expert identification or simple rule-based algorithms, struggle to cope with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Fengxiao Tang , Xiaonan Wang , Xun Yuan , Linfeng Luo , Ming Zhao , Tianchi Huang , Nei Kato

For time-critical IoT applications using deep learning, inference acceleration through distributed computing is a promising approach to meet a stringent deadline. In this paper, we implement a working prototype of a new distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhongtian Dong , Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-time systems remains challenging due to their substantial computational demands and privacy concerns. We propose Floe, a hybrid federated learning framework designed for latency-sensitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Chunlin Tian , Kahou Tam , Yebo Wu , Shuaihang Zhong , Li Li , Nicholas D. Lane , Chengzhong Xu

The combination of Federated Learning (FL), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), and edge-cloud computing enables distributed and real-time data processing while preserving privacy across edge devices and cloud infrastructure. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Gaith Rjouba , Hanae Elmekki , Saidul Islam , Jamal Bentahar , Rachida Dssouli

Decentralized LLM inference distributes computation among heterogeneous nodes across the internet, offering a performant and cost-efficient solution, alternative to traditional centralized inference. However, the low cross-node network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jiu Chen , Shuangyan Yang , Xu Xiong , Hexiao Duan , Xinran Zhang , Jie Ren , Dong Li

Deploying large language model (LLM) inference at scale requires jointly selecting base models, provisioning heterogeneous GPUs, configuring parallelism, and distributing workloads under tight latency, accuracy, and budget constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiaming Cheng , Duong Tung Nguyen

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites play an essential role in intelligent Earth observation by leveraging artificial intelligence models. However, limited onboard memory and excessive inference delay prevent the practical deployment of large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Songge Zhang , Wen Wu , Liang Li , Ye Wang , Xuemin , Shen

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices remains challenging due to their quadratically increasing computations with the sequence length. Existing studies for dynamic attention pruning are designed for hardware with massively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiawen Qi , Chang Gao , Zhaochun Ren , Qinyu Chen

Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) using the local data of edge users can enable personalized services and applications. For privacy protection, the prevalent solution adopts distributed learning for fine-tuning and integrates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Songge Zhang , Guoliang Cheng , Zuguang Li , Wen Wu

RAPID-LLM is a unified performance modeling framework for large language model (LLM) training and inference on GPU clusters. It couples a DeepFlow-based frontend that generates hardware-aware, operator-level Chakra execution traces from an…

The billion-scale Large Language Models (LLMs) need deployment on expensive server-grade GPUs with large-storage HBMs and abundant computation capability. As LLM-assisted services become popular, achieving cost-effective LLM inference on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Lian Liu , Shixin Zhao , Bing Li , Haimeng Ren , Zhaohui Xu , Mengdi Wang , Xiaowei Li , Yinhe Han , Ying Wang

Edge intelligence delivers low-latency inference, yet most edge analytics remain hard-coded and must be redeployed as conditions change. When data patterns shift or new questions arise, engineers often need to write new scripts and push…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chinmaya Kumar Dehury , Siddharth Singh Kushwaha , Qiyang Zhang , Alaa Saleh , Praveen Kumar Donta

As large language models (LLMs) continue to grow in size, distributed inference has become increasingly important. Model-parallel strategies must now efficiently scale not only across multiple GPUs but also across multiple nodes. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Prajwal Singhania , Siddharth Singh , Lannie Dalton Hough , Akarsh Srivastava , Harshitha Menon , Charles Fredrick Jekel , Abhinav Bhatele

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly, emerging as versatile tools across fields thanks to their exceptional language understanding, generation, and reasoning capabilities. However, performing LLM inference at the network edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhixiong Chen , Bingjie Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang , Hyundong Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Dusit Niyato

In recent times, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has resulted in increasingly larger model size, posing challenges for inference on low-resource devices. Prior approaches have explored offloading to facilitate low-memory…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xuanlei Zhao , Bin Jia , Haotian Zhou , Ziming Liu , Shenggan Cheng , Yang You

While deploying large language models on edge devices promises low-latency and privacy-preserving AI services, it is hindered by limited device resources. Although pipeline parallelism facilitates distributed inference, existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuran Liu , Nan Xue , Rui Bao , Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui