arXiv:2606. 02581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) faces a fundamental three-way tension: deeper retrieval improves factual grounding but inflates token costs and end-to-end latency.
By Sanjay Mishra
arXiv:2607. 19349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as always-on online services, making efficient LLM serving a critical systems challenge.
By Tiancheng Zhang, Shaoyuan Huang, Mingyuan Wang, Yunfeng Zhao, Xiaofei Wang, Wenyu Wang
arXiv:2508. 06133v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study offline scheduling for large language model (LLM) serving under a fixed KV-cache memory budget, where requests have heterogeneous prompt (prefill) and response (decode) lengths.
By Meixuan Wang, Yinyu Ye, Zijie Zhou
arXiv:2608. 06557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reasoning and agentic capabilities of large language models have expanded the range of applications they support, from short interactive exchanges to long, compute-heavy requests.
By Muhammad Adnan, Rohan Mahapatra, Prashant J. Nair, Daniel Berger, Pantea Zardoshti, Rodrigo Fonseca, Esha Choukse
arXiv:2606. 29094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to conventional autoregressive language models.
By Tzu-Tao Chang, Benjamin Yuanyang Hong, Kiet Pham, Shivaram Venkataraman
arXiv:2510. 19366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales model capacity through sparse activation, and is becoming an important architecture for large language models (LLMs).
By Xinfeng Xia, Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Wenfeng Wang, Mingxuan Zhang, Peng Tang, Chao Li, Minyi Guo
arXiv:2606. 00946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently serving large language model (LLM) inference tasks is crucial both for user-perceived latency such as time-to-first-token (TTFT) and for GPU utilization.
By Gangmuk Lim, Wanyu Zhao, Brighten Godfrey, Jiaxin Shan, Le Xu, Liguang Xie
arXiv:2412. 04504v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) grow in popularity for their diverse capabilities, improving the efficiency of their inference systems has become increasingly critical.
By Ozgur Guldogan, Jackson Kunde, Kangwook Lee, Ramtin Pedarsani
arXiv:2510. 03243v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient scheduling of large language model (LLM) inference tasks is critical for achieving low latency and high throughput, a challenge that is becoming increasingly acute with the rise of reasoning-capable LLMs whose generation lengths are highly variable.
By Yiheng Tao, Yihe Zhang, Matthew Dearing, Xin Wang, Yuping Fan, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan
arXiv:2607. 22578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has shifted serving systems from processing isolated requests to orchestrating high-concurrency, multi-tenant agentic workflows.
By Size Li, Zhiqing Tang, Hongrui Liang, Jianxiong Guo, Jiong Lou, Tian Wang, Weijia Jia
arXiv:2607. 23815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as semantic operators for filtering, extracting, ranking, joining, and transforming unstructured data.
By Hojae Son, Md Ashraful Islam, Huy Gia Cao, Hui Guan, Marco Serafini
arXiv:2607. 03948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the online routing problem in large language model serving, where requests arrive sequentially and must be dispatched to parallel decode workers under tight batch-size and KV-cache constraints.
By Zixi Chen, Yinyu Ye, Zijie Zhou