arXiv Machine Learning

LeanStream: A Speculate-and-Refine Streaming Framework for Efficient on-Device LLM Inference

LeanStream introduces a speculate‑and‑refine streaming framework that enables efficient on‑device inference of large language models by progressively refining computation, loading, and cache‑retention priorities using partial GPU results. This approach allows fine‑grained overlap between GPU execution and storage I/O, avoiding the trade‑offs of existing systems that serialize execution or incur redundant weight fetches. Implemented on mobile and embedded platforms, LeanStream reduces memory usage by 4.8× to 7.5× compared to prior work while improving token generation throughput by 1.6× to 2.1×.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

Prima.cpp: Fast 30-70B LLM Inference on Heterogeneous and Low-Resource Home Clusters

arXiv:2504. 08791v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-device inference offers privacy, offline use, and instant response, but consumer hardware restricts large language models (LLMs) to low throughput and capability.

By Zonghang Li, Tao Li, Wenjiao Feng, Rongxing Xiao, Jianshu She, Hong Huang, Mohsen Guizani, Hongfang Yu, Qirong Ho, Wei Xiang, Xue Liu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Flash-dLLM: IO-Aware KV Caching and Parallel Decoding for Fast, Memory-Efficient Diffusion LLMs

Flash-dLLM is a training‑free inference acceleration framework that improves the speed and memory efficiency of Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs). It tackles GPU memory I/O bottlenecks by introducing an I/O‑aware fused KV‑cache kernel and then employs a draft‑and‑verify decoding strategy that uses the dLLM itself as both drafter and verifier. Experiments on mathematical reasoning and code‑generation tasks show Flash‑dLLM outperforms existing acceleration methods, achieving up to 11.0× speedups over the Elastic‑Cache baseline.

By Quan Nguyen-Tri, Mukul Ranjan, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv AI
21h ago

FlashOffloading: Low-Latency KV Cache Offloading for Long-Context LLM Serving

arXiv:2611.07542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In large language model (LLM) serving systems, the key-value (KV) cache grows linearly with sequence length and concurrency, so long-context inference...

By Xuan Wang, Zhuanhao Wu, Tingzhu Fang, Xushi Li, Sicheng Zhang, Zhenyu Yang, Feng Liu, Zhaohui Fan, Qiang Xie, Huayi Zou, Yuncong Liu, Zeyu Song, Ke Zhu, Yanjia Zeng, Jingchun Gao, Yan Shi, Kui Luo, Gezi Li, Liangjun Feng, Cheng Li
arXiv AI
Oct 9

SparKV: Overhead-Aware KV Cache Loading for Efficient On-Device LLM Inference

SparKV is an adaptive framework for on-device large language model inference that intelligently decides whether to stream or compute each key-value (KV) cache chunk, overlapping communication and computation to cut latency. It dynamically adjusts offline-generated schedules at runtime to cope with changing wireless connectivity and edge resource availability. Experiments show SparKV can reduce Time-to-First-Token by 1.3×–5.1× and lower per-request energy consumption by 1.5×–3.3× with minimal impact on response quality.

By Hongyao Liu, Liuqun Zhai, Junyi Wang, Zhengru Fang, Jingshu Chen, Jun Huang
arXiv AI
Sep 25

TIDE: Temporal Incremental Draft Engine for Self-Improving LLM Inference

TIDE (Temporal Incremental Draft Engine) is a serving‑engine‑native framework that integrates online draft adaptation into high‑performance LLM inference. By reusing intermediate hidden states from the target model as training signals, TIDE avoids extra target model computation and serving‑time overhead, activating speculation and draft training only when beneficial. On heterogeneous GPU clusters, TIDE achieves up to 1.66× higher throughput than no‑speculation baselines, reduces training time by up to 3.02×, cuts storage needs by 24×, and improves system throughput by up to 1.22×.

By Jiyoung Park, Hankyu Jang, Changseok Song, Wookeun Jung