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.
arXiv:2607. 04206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising a masked response and can commit multiple output positions per model invocation.
arXiv:2606. 21633v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The KV cache dominates GPU memory in long-context LLM serving, crowding out batch capacity and leaving GPU compute idle.
arXiv:2608.28044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference serving is priced by tokens, but GPU energy is consumed over inference windows. This accounting mismatch makes t...
Diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising a masked response and can commit multiple output positions per model invocation. Their bidirectional attention prevents exact autoregressive-style KV caching, since committing one position shifts the KV activations of all others.
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.
arXiv:2605. 23057v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: RequestRouter is a lightweight request-boundary controller for reducing the latency and energy cost of single-GPU large language model inference.
arXiv:2607. 23264v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained, device-initiated communication lets persistent GPU kernels in distributed diffusion transformer (DiT) inference issue remote stores and overlap data movement with Tensor Core computation.
arXiv:2606. 29094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to conventional autoregressive language models.
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.
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. We present BlockServe, a continuous batching framework that integrates block-grained scheduling -- immediately evicting completed requests at block boundaries -- with mixed-state execution that extends dual cache and parallel decoding to heterogeneous batches via gather-scatter indexing.
arXiv:2607. 12121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models have become the central backbone for modern image, video, and audio generation, but their efficient service remains a challenge.
arXiv:2607. 02043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Disaggregated LLM serving runs prefill and decode on separate GPU pools to keep the two phases from interfering.