Inference efficiency

Quantization, distillation, pruning and serving work aimed at the same accuracy for less memory, latency and money.

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arXiv AI
Jul 28

PTStore (Prefix Tensor Store): Distributed Prefix Caching and Replication for High Throughput Inference Serving

arXiv:2607. 22648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inspired by the design of client caching in Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), PTStore distributes and replicates popular tensors that form reusable KV cache prefixes, which are the main technique used by state of art approaches to accelerate inferences.

By Meghana Maghyastha, Robert Underwood, Randal Burns, Bogdan Nicolae
arXiv AI
Jul 28

MM-ShiftKV: Decode-Aware Prefill-Stage KV Selection for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 22586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Key-Value (KV) caching is essential for efficient inference in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet its memory footprint grows linearly with context length and becomes a major bottleneck due to the large number of visual tokens.

By Jinsong Shu, Chenyang Wu, Zhongle Xie, Baokun Wang, Lidan Shou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Gleam: Adaptive Network-Efficient CUDA API Remoting for Cross-Device GPU Sharing over LANs

arXiv:2607. 23115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper aims to enable computation- and communication-efficient GPU sharing across devices within local area networks (LANs), facilitating ubiquitous AI inference on heterogeneous personal devices.

By Zhihao Xu, Hao Zhong, Zeting Zhou, Yuhang Xu, Haoyu Tong, Wei Wang, Jinshan Chen, Keqiang He, Chong Zhu, Shengzhong Liu, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 28

From Camera-Based Sensing to Reasoning: A Comprehensive Review Toward Proactive Vulnerable Road User Safety

arXiv:2510. 03314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians and cyclists, remains a critical challenge, as conventional infrastructure-based measures are often insufficient in dynamic urban environments.

By Shucheng Zhang, Yan Shi, Bingzhang Wang, Yuang Zhang, Muhammad Monjurul Karim, Kehua Chen, Chenxi Liu, Mehrdad Nasri, Yinhai Wang