arXiv Machine Learning

SHIELD: A Segmented Hierarchical Memory Architecture for Energy-Efficient LLM Inference on Edge NPUs

arXiv:2604. 07396v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) inference on edge Neural Processing Units (NPUs) is fundamentally constrained by limited on-chip memory capacity.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Flash-dLLM: IO-Aware KV Caching and Parallel Decoding for Fast, Memory-Efficient Diffusion LLMs

Flash-dLLM is a training‑free inference acceleration framework that improves the speed and memory efficiency of Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs). It tackles GPU memory I/O bottlenecks by introducing an I/O‑aware fused KV‑cache kernel and then employs a draft‑and‑verify decoding strategy that uses the dLLM itself as both drafter and verifier. Experiments on mathematical reasoning and code‑generation tasks show Flash‑dLLM outperforms existing acceleration methods, achieving up to 11.0× speedups over the Elastic‑Cache baseline.

By Quan Nguyen-Tri, Mukul Ranjan, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

LLMET: Enabling Cross-Layer Evaluation of Emerging M3D Memories for Energy-Efficient LLM Serving

arXiv:2607. 26491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The energy consumption of Large Language Model (LLM) serving is becoming a major system challenge as deployment scales, driven by hardware power and thermal constraints and rising electricity costs.

By Ming-Yen Lee, Hanchen Yang, Faaiq Waqar, Harsono Simka, Tushar Krishna, Muhammed Ahosan Ul Karim, Shimeng Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Stochastic Sparse Attention for Memory-Bound Inference

arXiv:2605. 01910v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive decoding becomes bandwidth-limited at long contexts, as generating each token requires reading all $n_k$ key and value vectors from KV cache.

By Kyle Lee, Corentin Delacour, Kevin Callahan-Coray, Kyle Jiang, Can Yaras, Samet Oymak, Tathagata Srimani, Kerem Y. Camsari