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Large language model (LLM) based agentic workflows have become a popular paradigm for coordinating multiple specialized agents to solve complex tasks. To improve serving efficiency, existing LLM systems employ prefix caching to reuse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zaifeng Pan , Ajjkumar Patel , Zhengding Hu , Yipeng Shen , Yue Guan , Wan-Lu Li , Lianhui Qin , Yida Wang , Yufei Ding

Prefix KV caching has become a key mechanism in LLM serving: it reduces time to first token (TTFT) by avoiding redundant computation across requests that share a prefix (i.e., the system prompt). However, the accumulated KV cache is often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yu Zhu , Aditya Dhakal , Yunming Xiao , Dejan Milojicic , Gustavo Alonso

Prefill/decode disaggregation is increasingly adopted in LLM serving to improve the latency-throughput tradeoff and meet strict TTFT and TPOT SLOs. However, LLM inference remains energy-hungry: autoscaling alone is too coarse-grained to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Omar Basit , Yunzhao Liu , Z. Jonny Kong , Y. Charlie Hu

In Large Language Model (LLM) serving, the KV-cache (KVC) bottleneck causes high tail Time-to-First-Token (TTFT) and Time-Between-Tokens (TBT), impairing user experience, particularly in time-sensitive applications. However, satisfying both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haiying Shen , Tanmoy Sen , Masahiro Tanaka

Major chip manufacturers have all introduced multicore microprocessors. Multi-socket systems built from these processors are used for running various server applications. However to the best of our knowledge current commercial operating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

Serving long-context LLMs is challenging because request lengths and batch composition vary during token generation, causing the memory footprint to fluctuate significantly at runtime. Offloading KV caches to host memory limits effective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinyue Ma , Heelim Hong , Taegeon Um , Jongseop Lee , Seoyeong Choy , Woo-Yeon Lee , Myeongjae Jeon

Prefix caching is a key latency optimization for autoregressive LLM serving, yet existing systems assume dense per-token key/value reuse. State-space models change the structure of the problem: a recurrent layer can resume from a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mikhail Shirokikh , Sergey Nikolenko

As Large Language Models (LLMs) broaden their capabilities to manage thousands of API calls, they are confronted with complex data operations across vast datasets with significant overhead to the underlying system. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Simranjit Singh , Michael Fore , Andreas Karatzas , Chaehong Lee , Yanan Jian , Longfei Shangguan , Fuxun Yu , Iraklis Anagnostopoulos , Dimitrios Stamoulis

Production vLLM fleets typically provision each instance for the worst-case context length, leading to substantial KV-cache over-allocation and under-utilized concurrency. In practice, 80-95% of requests are short, yet are served under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xunzhuo Liu , Bowei He , Xue Liu , Andy Luo , Haichen Zhang , Huamin Chen

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly play an important role in a wide range of information processing and management tasks in industry. Many of these tasks are performed in large batches or even offline, and the performance indicator…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhen Zheng , Xin Ji , Taosong Fang , Fanghao Zhou , Chuanjie Liu , Gang Peng

The evolution of Large Language Model (LLM) serving towards complex, distributed architectures--specifically the P/D-separated, large-scale DP+EP paradigm--introduces distinct scheduling challenges. Unlike traditional deployments where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jian Tian , Shuailong Li , Yang Cao , Wenbo Cui , Minghan Zhu , Wenkang Wu , Jianming Zhang , Yanpeng Wang , Zhiwen Xiao , Zhenyu Hou , Dou Shen

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

The efficient deployment of large language models (LLMs) in online settings requires optimizing inference performance under stringent latency constraints, particularly the time-to-first-token (TTFT) and time-per-output-token (TPOT). This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Gregory Dexter , Shao Tang , Ata Fatahi Baarzi , Qingquan Song , Tejas Dharamsi , Aman Gupta

Serving long-context LLMs is costly because attention computation grows linearly with context length. Dynamic sparse attention algorithms (DSAs) mitigate this by attending only to the key-value (KV) cache of critical tokens. However, with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qihui Zhou , Peiqi Yin , Pengfei Zuo , James Cheng

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serving systems commonly employ KV-cache compression to reduce memory footprint. However, existing compression methods introduce significant processing overhead and queuing delays, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jianian Zhu , Hang Wu , Haojie Wang , Yinghui Li , Biao Hou , Ruixuan Li , Jidong Zhai

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

Data locality is a fundamental issue for data-parallel applications. Considering MapReduce in Hadoop, the map task scheduling part requires an efficient algorithm which takes data locality into consideration; otherwise, the system may…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Ali Yekkehkhany

LAPS identifies and disaggregates requests with different prompt lengths in LLM serving to reduce TTFT latency. While recent systems have decoupled the prefill and decode stages to improve throughput, they still rely on unified scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jianshu She , Zonghang Li , Hongchao Du , Shangyu Wu , Wenhao Zheng , Eric Xing , Zhengzhong Liu , Huaxiu Yao , Jason Xue , Qirong Ho

Since local LLM inference on resource-constrained edge devices imposes a severe performance bottleneck, this paper proposes distributed prompt caching to enhance inference performance by cooperatively sharing intermediate processing states…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hiroki Matsutani , Naoki Matsuda , Naoto Sugiura

In this paper, the problem of joint caching and resource allocation is investigated for a network of cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that service wireless ground users over the LTE licensed and unlicensed (LTE-U) bands. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin