arXiv:2511. 15503v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-performance Host processors can integrate Processing-In-Memory (PIM) devices, which can accelerate memory-intensive kernels of Machine Learning (ML) models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), by leveraging the large memory bandwidth available at PIM cores.
By Peiming Yang, Sankeerth Durvasula, Ivan Fernandez, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Onur Mutlu, Gennady Pekhimenko, Christina Giannoula
arXiv:2606. 04023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) have been extensively evaluated on code generation tasks for general-purpose programming and GPU-accelerated environments (e.
By Jie Li, Wenzhao Wu, Junqi Hu, Qinrui Zheng, Bowen Wu, Juepeng Zheng, Yutong Lu, Haohuan Fu
arXiv:2608. 05033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse matrix kernels are fundamental to scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning.
By Shiyang Li, Guangyan Sun, Jinwei Tang, Yanzhi Wang, Mingyi Hong, Caiwen Ding
arXiv:2603. 29002v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) increasingly depends on efficient long-context processing and generation mechanisms, including sparse attention, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and compressed contextual memory, to support complex reasoning.
By Zifan He, Rui Ma, Yizhou Sun, Jason Cong
arXiv:2608. 01536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on sparsity to reduce inference cost, but most prior work targets a single sparsity source-either weight or activation-and optimizes for batched multi-user inference.
By Ruokai Yin, Priyadarshini Panda
arXiv:2606. 17781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the need for specialized hardware accelerators that can satisfy stringent inference latency and power constraints.
By Kosmas Alexandridis, Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos
arXiv:2607. 07862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution of compute infrastructure has transformed multi-GPU systems into tightly integrated shared-memory structures.
By Tingkai Liu, Muralidhar Andoorveedu, Sanjoy Das, Sanjay Patel, Volodymyr Kindratenko
arXiv:2602. 24044v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) adapters enable low-cost model specialization, but introduce complex caching and scheduling challenges in distributed serving systems where hundreds of adapters must be hosted concurrently.
By Ferran Agullo, Joan Oliveras, Chen Wang, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Olivier Tardieu, Alaa Youssef, Jordi Torres, Josep Ll. Berral
arXiv:2509. 23722v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pipeline parallelism is widely used to train large language models (LLMs).
By Jihu Guo, Tenghui Ma, Wei Gao, Peng Sun, Xun Chen, Jiaxing Li, Zhisheng Ye, Yuyang Jin, Dahua Lin
arXiv:2606. 16332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern CPUs increasingly integrate matrix extensions, such as Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME), that provide high-throughput matrix execution within the CPU.
By Feiyang Chen, Haibo Chen
arXiv:2607. 19431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bit-serial accelerators exploit bit-level sparsity to reduce DNN inference cost, but existing designs exploit sparsity on only one operand, bounding the speedup.
By Varun Manjunath, Ruokai Yin, Donghyun Lee, Arkapravo Ghosh, Priyadarshini Panda
arXiv:2607. 08786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing deployment of large language models (LLMs), LLM inference cost has become a key challenge.
By Tao Lu, Haoyu Wang, Zonghui Wang, Keshen Xiang, Jiaheng Zhang, Wenzhi Chen