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SyGra: The One-Stop Framework for Building Data for LLMs and SLMs

Towards Data Science
Jul 22

How To Build Your Own LLM Runtime From Scratch

If you have ever wanted to actually build an LLM inference runtime yourself — pack your own weights, own every barrier, capture your own CUDA graphs — this is what that journey looks like on an H100. A step-by-step tour of a small runtime called annotated-llm-runtime, and the three bugs that produced most of the annotations.

By Anubhab Banerjee
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB

The paper introduces FlockMTL, an extension for database management systems that deeply integrates large language models and retrieval‑augmented generation into DuckDB. It provides model‑driven scalar and aggregate functions, cost‑based optimizations like batching and caching, and new SQL DDL abstractions (PROMPT and MODEL) to treat LLMs as first‑class schema objects. These features aim to simplify the development of knowledge‑intensive analytical applications by reducing the effort required to orchestrate heterogeneous data systems and manage LLM context.

By Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Harmonia: End-to-End RAG Serving Optimization

arXiv:2505. 07833v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the reliability of large language models by integrating external knowledge, but serving RAG pipelines efficiently is challenging because requests traverse heterogeneous components spanning LLM inference, databases, and CPU-side processing.

By Saurabh Agarwal, Bodun Hu, Luis Pabon, Myungjin Lee, Jayanth Srinivasa, Aditya Akella