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Finetuning large language models (LLMs) is essential for task adaptation, yet today's serving stacks isolate inference and finetuning on separate GPU clusters -- wasting resources and under-utilizing hardware. We introduce FlexLLM, the…

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Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of finding a seed vertex set which is expected to incur the maximum influence spread on a graph. It has various applications in practice such as devising an effective and efficient approach to…

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Point cloud registration serves as a basis for vision and robotic applications including 3D reconstruction and mapping. Despite significant improvements on the quality of results, recent deep learning approaches are computationally…

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Modern AI hardware, such as Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, is increasingly embracing low-precision floating-point (FP) formats to handle the pervasive activation outliers in Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite this industry trend, a…

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The rapid adaptation of data driven AI models, such as deep learning inference, training, Vision Transformers (ViTs), and other HPC applications, drives a strong need for runtime precision configurable different non linear activation…

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Transformers have revolutionized AI in natural language processing and computer vision, but their large computation and memory demands pose major challenges for hardware acceleration. In practice, end-to-end throughput is often limited by…

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Neural document ranking approaches, specifically transformer models, have achieved impressive gains in ranking performance. However, query processing using such over-parameterized models is both resource and time intensive. In this paper,…

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Fourier Neural Operators (FNO) are widely used for learning partial differential equation solution operators. However, FNO lacks architecture-aware optimizations,with its Fourier layers executing FFT, filtering, GEMM, zero padding, and iFFT…

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