arXiv:2607. 08786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing deployment of large language models (LLMs), LLM inference cost has become a key challenge.
By Tao Lu, Haoyu Wang, Zonghui Wang, Keshen Xiang, Jiaheng Zhang, Wenzhi Chen
arXiv:2607. 21985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing deployment of large language models (LLMs) has magnified the computational and memory bottlenecks of autoregressive decoding, where low compute intensity and bandwidth-bound kernels dominate inference cost.
By Jinhyeok Kim, Yejoon Lee, Jaeyoung Do
arXiv:2607. 25504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained weight pruning and activation sparsification have emerged as effective approaches for reducing the compute and memory cost of inference for Transformer models.
By Bowen Wang, Chi Zhang, Diyou Shen, Renzo Andri, Navaneeth Kunhi Purayil, Luca Benini
arXiv:2606. 10445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semi-structured 2:4 sparsity is widely supported by modern accelerators, providing up to a 2x theoretical speedup.
By Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Samyam Rajbhandari
Semi-structured 2:4 sparsity is widely supported by modern accelerators, providing up to a 2x theoretical speedup. However, its strict 50% sparsity constraint often causes non-negligible accuracy degradation under post-training pruning.
arXiv:2608. 05033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse matrix kernels are fundamental to scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning.
By Shiyang Li, Guangyan Sun, Jinwei Tang, Yanzhi Wang, Mingyi Hong, Caiwen Ding
arXiv:2603. 29002v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) increasingly depends on efficient long-context processing and generation mechanisms, including sparse attention, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and compressed contextual memory, to support complex reasoning.
By Zifan He, Rui Ma, Yizhou Sun, Jason Cong
arXiv:2608. 15602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While binary quantization theoretically promises extreme compression and acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs), existing research often overlooks the necessity of specialized hardware kernels, thus failing to unleash the full acceleration potential due to persistent reliance on expensive floating-point arithmetic or runtime dequantization overheads.
By Qingyao Yang, Runming Yang, He Xiao, Wendong Xu, Junyu Chen, Haobo Liu, Chenchen Ding, Ruihan Hu, Yik-Chung Wu, Ngai Wong
arXiv:2606. 00144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding speeds up autoregressive decoding by using a drafter to propose multiple tokens that a verifier validates in parallel.
By Liang He, Jingbo Wen, Qishi Zhan, Yixiong Chen, Kangning Cui, Qizhen Lan, Xilu Wang
arXiv:2607. 14568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A companion study ran a 35B mixture-of-experts model on a 2011 NVIDIA Tesla C2075 (Fermi, sm_20, 6GB) as a GPU-prefill/CPU-decode hybrid, because the 4-bit model did not fit in device memory (arXiv:2606.
By A. C. Opus, J. Q. Lu
arXiv:2606. 03026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking language models expose activation sparsity that dense Transformer runtimes do not directly exploit.
By Ting Liu
arXiv:2607. 16241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) can generate custom CUDA kernels that appear to outperform PyTorch on benchmarks such as KernelBench.
By Yunxiang Zhang (Xiangjun), Ping Yu (Xiangjun), Jianyu Wang (Xiangjun), Max (Xiangjun), Fan, Julian Reed, Azalia Mirhoseini, Will Su