arXiv Machine Learning

Energy-Efficient On-Device RAG on a Mobile NPU: System Design and Benchmark on Snapdragon X Elite

arXiv:2606. 11257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines are compute-intensive, combining embedding, retrieval, reranking, and large language model (LLM) generation.

arXiv AI
Jul 13

STEEL: Sparsity-Aware Fused Attention for Energy-Efficient Long-Sequence Inference on AMD's XDNA NPU

arXiv:2607. 09385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing adoption of large language model-based agents within operating system workflows has increased the importance of energy-efficient inference on laptop-class systems-on-chip (SoCs).

By Victor J. B. Jung, Gagandeep Singh, Joseph Melber, Kristof Denolf, Francesco Conti, Luca Benini
arXiv AI
Jun 30

KernelSight-LM: A Kernel-Level LLM Inference Simulator

arXiv:2606. 28565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) move into production serving, practitioners must rapidly evaluate inference performance across diverse hardware, models, and serving parameters to meet cost and latency targets.

By Xiteng Yao, Taeho Kim, Hengzhi Pei, Xinle Liu, Kyle Ulrich, Leonard Lausen, Ashish Khetan, Xiang Song, George Karypis, Martin Herbordt
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Fine-Tuning and Serving Gemma 4 31B on Google Cloud TPU: A Technical Comparison with GPU Baselines

arXiv:2605. 25645v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present the first end-to-end demonstration of fine-tuning and serving Google's Gemma 4 31B model on TPU hardware, providing an empirical comparison of TPU and GPU platforms for large language model adaptation.

By Jatin Kishnani, Mayank Goel, Amit Singh, Pulkit Agrawal, Sairanjan Mishra
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Profiling Lightweight Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 20806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lightweight large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being deployed locally on personal computers and are expected to play a growing role in resource-constrained edge and mobile environments.

By Tomohiro Harada, Enrique Alba, Gabriel Luque