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Federated learning (FL) has shown great potential in medical image computing since it provides a decentralized learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to train a model collaboratively without privacy leakage. However, current studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Meilu Zhu , Qiushi Yang , Zhifan Gao , Yixuan Yuan , Jun Liu

Precise estimation of model inference latency is crucial for time-critical mobile edge applications, enabling devices to calculate latency margins against deadlines and trade them for enhanced model performance or resource savings. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jiesong Chen , Jun You , Zhidan Liu , Zhenjiang Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a critical and fast-growing extension of Large Language Models (LLMs) that enable multimodal reasoning through both text and image inputs. Although VLMs enrich the capabilities of language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingbing Huang , Tharun Adithya Srikrishnan , Steven K. Reinhardt , Deming Chen

This paper uses the reconstruction-computation-quantization (RCQ) paradigm to decode low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. RCQ facilitates dynamic non-uniform quantization to achieve good frame error rate (FER) performance with very low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Linfang Wang , Caleb Terrill , Maximilian Stark , Zongwang Li , Sean Chen , Chester Hulse , Calvin Kuo , Richard Wesel , Gerhard Bauch , Rekha Pitchumani

Deep learning-based Visual SLAM (vSLAM) systems exhibit exceptional geometric reasoning capabilities, yet their prohibitive computational overhead severely restricts deployment on resource-constrained autonomous platforms. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cheng Liao

Mechanistic interpretability aims to reverse-engineer the internal computations of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet separating sparse semantic signals from high-dimensional polysemantic noise remains a significant challenge. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jonathan Pan

LLM decoding is bottlenecked for large batches and long contexts by loading the key-value (KV) cache from high-bandwidth memory, which inflates per-token latency, while the sequential nature of decoding limits parallelism. We analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ted Zadouri , Hubert Strauss , Tri Dao

To address the increasing computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, compute-in-memory (CIM) integrates memory and processing units into the same physical location, reducing the time and energy overhead of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiwen Liu , Keshava Katti , Yunfei He , Paul Jacob , Claudia Richter , Uwe Schroeder , Santosh Kurinec , Pratik Chaudhari , Deep Jariwala

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared model while preserving data privacy. Ever-increasing model complexity coupled with limited memory resources on the participating devices severely bottlenecks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Chunlin Tian , Li Li , Kahou Tam , Yebo Wu , Chengzhong Xu

Multi-agent LLM systems on edge devices face a memory management problem: device RAM is too small to hold every agent's KV cache simultaneously. On Apple M4 Pro with 10.2 GB of cache budget, only 3 agents fit at 8K context in FP16. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yakov Pyotr Shkolnikov

In this work, an efficient precoding design scheme is proposed for downlink cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (DM-MIMO) filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) systems with asynchronous reception and highly frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yuhao Qi , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Liang Wu , Yongpeng Wu

As Large Language Models (LLMs) scale in size and context length, the memory requirements of the key value (KV) cache have emerged as a major bottleneck during autoregressive decoding. The KV cache grows with sequence length and embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sourjya Roy , Shrihari Sridharan , Surya Selvam , Anand Raghunathan

The Transformer architecture, underpinned by the self-attention mechanism, has become the de facto standard for sequence modeling tasks. However, its core computational primitive scales quadratically with sequence length (O(N^2)), creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rishiraj Acharya

Cyber-security for 5G networks is drawing notable attention due to an increase in complex jamming attacks that could target the critical 5G Radio Frequency (RF) domain. These attacks pose a significant risk to heterogeneous network (HetNet)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Samhita Kuili , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

The popular VQ-VAE models reconstruct images through learning a discrete codebook but suffer from a significant issue in the rapid quality degradation of image reconstruction as the compression rate rises. One major reason is that a higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xinmiao Lin , Yikang Li , Jenhao Hsiao , Chiuman Ho , Yu Kong

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging framework for distributed processing of large data volumes by edge devices subject to limited communication bandwidths, heterogeneity in data distributions and computational resources, as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yonghai Gong , Yichuan Li , Nikolaos M. Freris

Large language models (LLMs) are typically served from clusters of GPUs/NPUs that consist of large number of devices. Unfortunately, communication between these devices incurs significant overhead, increasing the inference latency and cost…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler , Jiawei Zhuang , Lukas Cavigelli

As modern LLMs support thousands to millions of tokens, KV caches grow to hundreds of gigabytes, stressing memory capacity and bandwidth. Existing solutions, such as KV cache pruning and offloading, alleviate these but underutilize hardware…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mao Lin , Xi Wang , Guilherme Cox , Dong Li , Hyeran Jeon

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced unified reasoning over text, images, and videos, but their inference is hindered by the rapid growth of key-value (KV) caches. Each visual input expands into thousands of tokens,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Bowen Zeng , Feiyang Ren , Jun Zhang , Xiaoling Gu , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Huan Li

We introduce the Holographic Knowledge Manifold (HKM), a four-phase pipeline that achieves zero catastrophic forgetting in AI knowledge representation while maintaining minimal memory growth and high efficiency. Leveraging fractal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Justin Arndt