arXiv Machine Learning

EdgeXpert: An Edge Device for Memory-Efficient LLM Inference with Mixture-of-Experts and Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2608. 05303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become essential for personalized edge applications.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

S2-MoE: Enabling Efficient Self-Speculative Decoding for Mixture-of-Experts on Edge Devices

S2-MoE is a self‑speculative decoding framework designed to make Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) inference more efficient on edge devices. It reduces verification overhead by using routing‑aware adaptive speculative expansion, improves verification efficiency with reuse‑aware expert gating, and aligns draft and target execution through shared context. Implemented in llama.cpp, S2‑MoE delivers up to 5.3× speedup (≈2.0× on average) over standard autoregressive decoding across various MoE models and datasets on edge hardware.

By Haochen Huang, Shengxuan Qiu, Meng Li
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

DraftExpert: Expansion-Aware Self-Speculative Decoding for End-Device MoE Inference

Large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models are attractive for end-device deployment because only a small subset of experts is active per token, but their routed expert weights often exceed accelerator memory. We target latency-critical single-user settings where routed experts are staged on demand from CPU memory to a GPU or from Flash to a mobile NPU.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Efficient Mixture-of-Experts with Speculative Decoding via Expert Coactivation

The paper studies how the design of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routers affects inference speed when combined with Speculative Decoding (SD). It shows that routers promoting high expert coactivation reduce memory transfer costs and improve runtime. By integrating a global load‑balancing loss, shared experts, a consistency loss, and an autoregressive expert selection mechanism, the authors achieve a 21% throughput gain over baseline MoEs while preserving accuracy.

By Kumari Nishu, Han-Byul Kim, Santosh Chilkunda, Maxwell Horton, Arnav Kundu, Mohammad Samragh, Lauren Hannah, Mohammad Sekhavat, Nikhil Bhendawade, Manuel Ciosici, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh Vahid, David Harrison, Irina Belousova, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Minsik Cho
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Ban&Pick: Enhancing Performance and Efficiency of MoE-LLMs via Smarter Routing

The paper introduces Ban&Pick, a post‑training, plug‑and‑play routing strategy for Sparse Mixture‑of‑Experts large language models. It identifies and reinforces a small group of highly influential experts while dynamically pruning redundant ones, leading to accuracy gains across math, code, and reasoning benchmarks. Experiments on DeepSeek and Qwen3 show notable performance improvements and a 1.25× inference speedup without retraining or architectural changes.

By Yuanteng Chen, Peisong Wang, Yuantian Shao, Nanxin Zeng, Chang Xu, Jian Cheng
arXiv AI
Jul 21

SelectInfer: Selective Neuron Loading and Computation for On-Device LLMs

arXiv:2607. 18081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, but their high computational and memory demands pose significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices.

By Huzaifa Shaaban Kabakibo, Eric Schniedermeyer, Artem Burchanow, Lin Wang