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Efficient LLM inference is critical for real-world applications, especially within heterogeneous GPU clusters commonly found in organizations and on-premise datacenters as GPU architecture rapidly evolves. Current disaggregated prefill…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yunzhao Liu , Qiang Xu , Y. Charlie Hu

Large language models (LLMs) excel at capturing global token dependencies via self-attention but face prohibitive compute and memory costs on lengthy inputs. While sub-quadratic methods (e.g., linear attention) can reduce these costs, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yeonju Ro , Zhenyu Zhang , Souvik Kundu , Zhangyang Wang , Aditya Akella

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the core post-training technique for large language models (LLMs). RL for LLMs involves two stages: generation and training. The LLM first generates samples online, which are then used to derive…

The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of generative large language models (LLMs) have made them a pivotal workload in various applications. Today, LLM inference clusters receive a large number of queries with strict Service Level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jovan Stojkovic , Chaojie Zhang , Íñigo Goiri , Josep Torrellas , Esha Choukse

Disaggregation has emerged as a powerful strategy for optimizing large language model (LLM) inference by separating compute-intensive prefill and memory-bound decode phases across specialized GPUs. This separation improves utilization and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yiwei Jiang , Sangeeta Chowdhary , Nathaniel Morris , Rutwik Jain , Srilatha Manne , Sam Bayliss

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been rapidly advancing, enabling cross-modal understanding and generation, and propelling artificial intelligence towards artificial general intelligence. However, existing MLLM inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xianzhe Dong , Tongxuan Liu , Yuting Zeng , Liangyu Liu , Yang Liu , Siyu Wu , Yu Wu , Hailong Yang , Ke Zhang , Jing Li

Attentio-FFN disaggregation (AFD) is an emerging architecture for LLM decoding that separates state-heavy, KV-cache-dominated Attention computation from stateless, compute-intensive FFN computation, connected by per-step communication.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chendong Song , Meixuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Hong Liang , Yuan Lyu , Zixi Chen , Yuwei Fan , Zijie Zhou

Modern large language model (LLM) inference has progressively disaggregated to keep pace with growing model sizes and tight TTFT and TPOT service-level objectives: from chunked-prefill aggregation, to prefill-decode (P/D) disaggregation,…

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on power-sensitive edge devices presents a formidable challenge. While Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) is widely employed for energy optimization, traditional model-level scaling is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ziyang Zhang , Zheshun Wu , Jie Liu , Luca Mottola

Existing large language model (LLM) serving systems typically employ Prefill-Decode disaggregated architecture to prevent computational interference between the prefill and decode phases. However, in real-world LLM serving scenarios,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yu Wu , Tongxuan Liu , Yuting Zeng , Siyu Wu , Jun Xiong , Xianzhe Dong , Hailong Yang , Ke Zhang , Jing Li

The growing scale and complexity of modern data centers present major challenges in balancing energy efficiency with outage risk. Although Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) shows strong potential for intelligent control, its deployment in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Qingang Zhang , Yuejun Yan , Guangyu Wu , Siew-Chien Wong , Jimin Jia , Zhaoyang Wang , Yonggang Wen

The growing demand for large language models (LLMs) requires serving systems to handle many concurrent requests with diverse service level objectives (SLOs). This exacerbates head-of-line (HoL) blocking during the compute-intensive prefill…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Chia-chi Hsieh , Zan Zong , Xinyang Chen , Jianjiang Li , Jidong Zhai , Lijie Wen

This paper presents a predictive deep learning framework for dynamic sub-band allocation in Sub-Band Full Duplex (SBFD) systems, addressing the challenge of balancing uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) performance under highly dynamic traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Abhiram D , Aiswarya Rajan , Arin Shemeem , Vipindev Adat Vasudevan , Abdulla P

As the model size continuously increases, pipeline parallelism shows great promise in throughput-oriented LLM inference due to its low demand on communications. However, imbalanced pipeline workloads and complex data dependencies in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Hongbin Zhang , Taosheng Wei , Zhenyi Zheng , Jiangsu Du , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu

Large Language Model (LLM) serving must meet stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for both the prefill and decode phases. Some existing solutions disaggregate the two phases, causing potential resource idleness or compute redundancy.…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yukang Chen , Weihao Cui , Han Zhao , Ziyi Xu , Xiaoze Fan , Xusheng Chen , Yangjie Zhou , Shixuan Sun , Bingsheng He , Quan Chen

An ongoing debate considers whether prefill-decode (PD) aggregation or disaggregation is superior for serving large language models (LLMs). This has driven optimizations for both approaches, each showing distinct advantages. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chao Wang , Pengfei Zuo , Zhangyu Chen , Yunkai Liang , Zhou Yu , Ming-Chang Yang

Energy efficiency and energy conservation are one of the most crucial constraints for meeting the 20MW power envelope desired for exascale systems. Towards this, most of the research in this area has been focused on the utilization of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Mohak Chadha , Michael Gerndt

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

LLM inference serving typically scales out with a two-tier architecture: a cluster router distributes requests to multiple inference engines, each of which then in turn performs its own internal scheduling. However, this commonly used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yue Zhang , Yuansheng Chen , Xuan Mo , Alex Xi , Jialun Li , WeiGang Wu

Energy disaggregation is the task of discerning the energy consumption of individual appliances from aggregated measurements, which holds promise for understanding and reducing energy usage. In this paper, we propose PHASED, an optimization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Faisal M. Almutairi , Aritra Konar , Ahmed S. Zamzam , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos