arXiv AI

Threshold-Based Exclusive Batching for LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 00516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixed batching (MB)--interleaving prefill and decode in a single batch--has become the standard scheduling strategy for large language model (LLM) inference due to its efficiency in maximizing compute and memory utilization.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

BlockServe: Block-Grained Continuous Batching for High-Throughput Diffusion LLM Serving

arXiv:2607. 08930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient serving of diffusion large language models (dLLMs) is hindered by convergence heterogeneity: when batching multiple requests, different sequences converge at different rates, causing faster requests to stall behind slower stragglers and introducing compute bubbles and tail latency.

By Yuanjie Zhu, Liangwei Yang, Ke Xu, Weizhi Zhang, Shanghao Li, Zihe Song, Philip S. Yu
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Serving Masked Diffusion LLMs: Characterization and Design Principles from Real Hardware

Masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) promise faster text generation by denoising multiple tokens simultaneously, yet their real‑world serving behavior has been largely unexamined. Using LLaDA‑8B‑Instruct on a single NVIDIA H200 GPU, the study finds that request difficulty is discretized into 11 step‑count levels, short‑budget benchmarks underestimate serving variance, and only 24% of single‑request time is GPU computation, with batching mainly reducing CPU dispatch overhead. The authors also demonstrate that output quality remains stable across batch sizes and propose a batch‑timeout rule for synchronized batching under Poisson arrivals.

By Farhana Amin, Sabiha Afroz, Mona Moghadampanah, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos