arXiv:2607. 19438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Apple's M5 generation introduces a redesigned GPU architecture in which every core carries a dedicated Neural Accelerator: on-die matrix units exposed through the Metal~4 tensor API.
By Fabian Waschkowski, Prabod Rathnayaka, Lukas Wesemann
arXiv:2606. 11357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing demand for on-device LLM inference, edge SoCs increasingly integrate NPUs to improve performance and energy efficiency under tight power and thermal budgets.
By Wesley Pang, Gregory Hyegang Jun, Feiyang Liu, Deming Chen
arXiv:2607. 14618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CPUs are the most universal target for on-device LLM inference, but existing low-bit quantization methods offer either coarse operating points or fine-grained mixed precision that is difficult to execute efficiently on CPUs.
By Hyunwoo Oh, Suyeon Jang, Hanning Chen, KyungIn Nam, Sanggeon Yun, Ryozo Masukawa, Mohsen Imani
arXiv:2606. 21428v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models are often described as ideal for resource-constrained inference.
By Alfarizy Alfarizy, Hung Truong Thanh Nguyen, Ren\'e Richard, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Hung Cao
arXiv:2504. 08791v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-device inference offers privacy, offline use, and instant response, but consumer hardware restricts large language models (LLMs) to low throughput and capability.
By Zonghang Li, Tao Li, Wenjiao Feng, Rongxing Xiao, Jianshu She, Hong Huang, Mohsen Guizani, Hongfang Yu, Qirong Ho, Wei Xiang, Xue Liu
arXiv:2607. 05475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on mobile devices enhances privacy and reduces latency, but is severely bottlenecked by hardware inefficiency.
By Guanyu Cai, Ruiming Tian, Lang Yang, Zhouhong Ren, Jinliang Yuan, Lingkun Li, Jiliang Wang
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:2607. 22785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Apple-Silicon SoCs share CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine over one unified memory system, raising the question of whether transformer inference can be accelerated by splitting single operators across units.
By Om Mohite
arXiv:2606. 13740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) accelerate generation by denoising multiple tokens in parallel, making them attractive for latency-sensitive mobile inference.
By Tuowei Wang, Yanfan Sun, Ju Ren
arXiv:2603. 23640v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying large language models on-device for always-on personal agents demands sustained inference from hardware tightly constrained in power, thermal envelope, and memory.
By Pranay Tummalapalli, Sahil Arayakandy, Ritam Pal, Kautuk Kundan
arXiv:2605. 26092v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) on edge devices is significantly constrained by memory limitations and the critical timing bottlenecks introduced by dense Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) arrays.
By Maoyang Xiang, Tao Luo, Bo Wang
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