arXiv Machine Learning

CRAFT: Fine-Grained Cost-Aware Expert Replication For Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Serving

arXiv:2603. 28768v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has recently emerged as the mainstream architecture for efficiently scaling large language models while maintaining near-constant computational cost.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

A Replicate-and-Quantize Strategy for Plug-and-Play Load Balancing of Sparse Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

arXiv:2602. 19938v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) architectures are increasingly used to scale large language models efficiently, delivering strong accuracy under fixed compute budgets.

By Zijie Liu, Jie Peng, Jinhao Duan, Zirui Liu, Kaixiong Zhou, Mingfu Liang, Luke Simon, Xi Liu, Zhaozhuo Xu, Tianlong Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Data Driven Optimization of GPU efficiency for Distributed LLM-Adapter Serving

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 Machine Learning
Jun 4

UltraEP: Unleash MoE Training and Inference on Rack-Scale Nodes with Near-Optimal Load Balancing

arXiv:2606. 04101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale expert parallelism (EP) is becoming pivotal for training and serving frontier MoE models, but it also amplifies device-level expert load imbalance into compute stragglers, token all-to-all bottlenecks, and activation-memory spikes.

By Xinming Wei, Chao Jin, Tuo Dai, Yinmin Zhong, Shan Yu, Chengxu Yang, Bingyang Wu, Zili Zhang, Jing Mai, Qianchao Zhu, Zhouyang Li, Yuliang Liu, Guojie Luo
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Meeting SLOs, Slashing Hours: Automated Enterprise LLM Optimization with OptiKIT

arXiv:2601. 20408v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enterprise LLM deployment faces a critical scalability challenge: organizations must optimize models systematically to scale AI initiatives within constrained compute budgets, yet the specialized expertise required for manual optimization remains a niche and scarce skillset.

By Nicholas Santavas, Kareem Eissa, Patrycja Cieplicka, Piotr Florek, Matteo Nulli, Stefan Vasilev, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Antonios Gasteratos, Shahram Khadivi