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Prefill and Decode for Concurrent Requests - Optimizing LLM Performance

arXiv AI
Jun 2

Threshold-Based Exclusive Batching for LLM Inference

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.

By Weifang Zhang, Yuzhou Nie, Bowen Pang, Guangrui Ma, Shining Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Cascade: Exploiting SLO-Aware latency budget for fair and high goodput LLM inference serving

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