arXiv:2607. 19438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Apple's M5 generation introduces a redesigned GPU architecture in which every core carries a dedicated Neural Accelerator: on-die matrix units exposed through the Metal~4 tensor API.
By Fabian Waschkowski, Prabod Rathnayaka, Lukas Wesemann
arXiv:2606. 11357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing demand for on-device LLM inference, edge SoCs increasingly integrate NPUs to improve performance and energy efficiency under tight power and thermal budgets.
By Wesley Pang, Gregory Hyegang Jun, Feiyang Liu, Deming Chen
arXiv:2607. 14618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CPUs are the most universal target for on-device LLM inference, but existing low-bit quantization methods offer either coarse operating points or fine-grained mixed precision that is difficult to execute efficiently on CPUs.
By Hyunwoo Oh, Suyeon Jang, Hanning Chen, KyungIn Nam, Sanggeon Yun, Ryozo Masukawa, Mohsen Imani
arXiv:2606. 21428v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models are often described as ideal for resource-constrained inference.
By Alfarizy Alfarizy, Hung Truong Thanh Nguyen, Ren\'e Richard, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Hung Cao
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:2607. 05475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on mobile devices enhances privacy and reduces latency, but is severely bottlenecked by hardware inefficiency.
By Guanyu Cai, Ruiming Tian, Lang Yang, Zhouhong Ren, Jinliang Yuan, Lingkun Li, Jiliang Wang