Edge inference is a promising paradigm to provide large language model (LLM) inference services in next-generation mobile networks. LLM inference mainly relies on two approaches: Autoregressive decoding (AD) generates output tokens sequentially, resulting in long latency; Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates inference by using a small language model (SLM) to generate multiple draft tokens for LLM verification, but incurs extra memory costs.
arXiv:2608. 15018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying large language models (LLMs) for inference on edge devices is challenging due to severe memory and bandwidth constraints.
By Haochen Huang, Shengxuan Qiu, Meng Li
arXiv:2608. 02031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) servers for large language model (LLM) inference under soft deadline constraints.
By Ngoc Hung Nguyen, Bjorn Landfeldt
arXiv:2608. 13076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language understanding and generation, but their deployment is constrained by high computational demands.
By Divya Jyoti Bajpai, Kishan Kumar Upadhyay, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal
arXiv:2603. 16867v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) with chain-of-thought reasoning achieve state-of-the-art performance across complex problem-solving tasks, but their verbose reasoning traces and large context requirements make them impractical for edge deployment.
By Yelysei Bondarenko, Thomas Hehn, Rob Hesselink, Romain Lepert, Fabio Valerio Massoli, Evgeny Mironov, Leyla Mirvakhabova, Tribhuvanesh Orekondy, Spyridon Stasis, Andrey Kuzmin, Anna Kuzina, Markus Nagel, Ankita Nayak, Corrado Rainone, Ork de Rooij, Paul N Whatmough, Arash Behboodi, Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi
arXiv:2606. 03770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to modern applications, yet their deployment remains challenging.
By Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Hoang-Loc La, Frank Eliassen, Phuong Hoai Ha, Peiyuan Guan
arXiv:2604. 26508v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on edge devices remains challenging due to their substantial computational and memory demands, which exceed the capabilities of resource-constrained embedded platforms.
By Cyril Shih-Huan Hsu, Wig Yuan-Cheng Cheng, Chrysa Papagianni
arXiv:2509. 23248v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled an emergence of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) with powerful reasoning and autonomous decision-making capabilities.
By Mingyi Luo, Ruichen Zhang, Xiangwang Hou, Jun Du, Chunxiao Jiang, Yong Ren, Shiwen Mao
arXiv:2606. 27743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) inference is typically deployed under a static resource assumption, where models execute a fixed computational graph regardless of the runtime environment.
By Yuhang Chen, Jinhao Duan, Ruichen Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Xiaohan Wei, Yunchen Pu, Fei Tian, Chonglin Sun, Parish Aggarwal, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sandeep Pandey, Tianlong Chen, Xi Liu
arXiv:2608. 05303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become essential for personalized edge applications.
By Sangwoo Ha, Hyunwoo Seo, Yurim Jo, Youngjin Moon, Hoi-Jun Yoo
arXiv:2608. 10362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive large language model (LLM) inference by using a lightweight draft model to speculate multiple tokens, reducing expensive target model decoding steps.
By Eunjeong Kim, Yeong Jun Jeon, Myeonggyun Han
arXiv:2607. 05147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by decoupling draft generation from target verification.
By Xin Cheng, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao, Jiashi Li, Yunfan Xiong, Yi Qian, Jiaqi Zhu, Shirong Ma, Xiaokang Zhang, Jiasheng Ye, Qinyu Chen, Chengqi Deng, Jiping Yu, Damai Dai, Zhengyan Zhang, Yixuan Wei, Yixuan Tan, Wenkai Yang, Runxin Xu, Yu Wu, Zhean Xu, Xuanyu Wang, Muyang Chen, Rui Tian, Xiao Bi, Zhewen Hao, Shaoyuan Chen, Huanqi Cao, Wentao Zhang, Anyi Xu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Wenfeng Liang