arXiv Machine Learning

FBLayout: Optimizing Memory Layout for Efficient LLM Finetuning on Mobile GPUs

arXiv:2607. 21624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based models have enabled unprecedented capabilities across language, vision, and multimodal tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

FlexViT: A Flexible FPGA-based Accelerator for Edge Vision Transformers

arXiv:2606. 31938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Vision Transformer (ViT) models on edge platforms remains challenging due to their high computational demands and the architectural heterogeneity of modern hybrid ViT models, which incorporate both fully connected and convolutional layers.

By Hubert Dymarkowski, Xingjian Fu, Rappy Saha, Jude Haris, Jos\'e Cano
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Gradient Under Microscope: Benchmarking Resource Utilization of Memory-Efficient Gradient Computation Methods

arXiv:2608. 08961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI training's rising resource intensity is straining electricity supplies and carbon budgets, motivating systematic study of memory-efficient training on constrained hardware.

By Sarthak Mahapatra, Zihan Zhou, Khatoon Khedri, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Reza Rawassizadeh
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

Performance Analysis and Optimization of 3D Generative Diffusion Models across GPU Architectures

arXiv:2606. 19365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have become essential for high-fidelity 3D MRI synthesis, yet their deployment remains constrained by substantial GPU resource demands arising from hundreds of U-Net evaluations per sample and a highly heterogeneous kernel behavior.

By Jeeho Ryoo, Yongchan Jung, Muhammad Ali Khaliq, Weidong Zhang, Jiatong Han, Byeong Kil Lee
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Tile-Level Activation Overlap for Efficient LLM Inference

arXiv:2607. 02521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: SwiGLU is the dominant MLP activation in modern large language models, yet its intermediate tensor materialization costs 9-37% of MLP execution time.

By Abhinav Jangda, Tyler Sorensen, Sebastian Burckhardt, Jianlan YE, Chaoyin Li, Atul Gupta
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Nova: An End-to-End MLIR Compiler for Deep Learning

arXiv:2608. 00029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models at scale relies heavily on how effectively high-level mathematical operations are mapped to underlying physical hardware.

By Adwaid Suresh, Aparna A, Harshini V M, Jona Delcy C A, Killi Uma Maheswara Rao, Ram Charan Golla, Surendra Vendra