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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) as an emerging paradigm utilizing cloudlet or fog nodes to extend remote cloud computing to the edge of the network, is foreseen as a key technology towards next generation wireless networks. By offloading…

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The recent growth of on-device Large Language Model (LLM) inference has driven significant interest in device-edge collaborative LLM inference. As a promising architecture, Speculative Decoding (SD) is increasingly adopted where a…

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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models improve the scalability of large language models (LLMs) by activating only a small subset of relevant experts per input. However, the sheer number of expert networks in an MoE model introduces a significant…

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Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated satisfactory performance across various vision-language tasks. Current approaches for vision and language interaction fall into two categories:…

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Modern deployments of Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly require serving multiple models with diverse architectures, sizes, and specialization on shared, heterogeneous hardware. This setting introduces new challenges for resource…

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Dense large language models(LLMs) face critical efficiency bottlenecks as they rigidly activate all parameters regardless of input complexity. While existing sparsity methods(static pruning or dynamic activation) address this partially,…

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To circumvent persistent connectivity to the cloud infrastructure, the current emphasis on computing at network edge devices in the multi-robot domain is a promising enabler for delay-sensitive jobs, yet its adoption is rife with…

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