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 13

STEEL: Sparsity-Aware Fused Attention for Energy-Efficient Long-Sequence Inference on AMD's XDNA NPU

arXiv:2607. 09385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing adoption of large language model-based agents within operating system workflows has increased the importance of energy-efficient inference on laptop-class systems-on-chip (SoCs).

By Victor J. B. Jung, Gagandeep Singh, Joseph Melber, Kristof Denolf, Francesco Conti, Luca Benini
arXiv AI
Jul 13

A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English

arXiv:2607. 09424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Soofi S 30B-A3B, a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) hybrid Mamba Transformer foundation model for German and English.

By The Soofi-Team, :, Benedikt Droste, David Fitzek, Ruben H\"arle, Lukas Helff, Maximilian Idahl, Alex Jude, Abbas Goher Khan, Maurice Kraus, Timm Ruland, Richard Rutmann, Sebastian Sztwiertnia, Markus Frey, Daniil Gurgurov, Jan Pfister, Tom R\"ohr, Sebastian von Rohrscheidt, J\"org Bienert, Nicolas Flores-Herr, Simon Gottschalk, Andreas Hotho, Kristian Kersting, Joachim K\"ohler, Alexander L\"oser, Wolfgang Nejdl, Simon Ostermann, Jan Plogsties, Patrick Putzky, Mehdi Ali, Michael Fromm, Max L\"ubbering
arXiv AI
Jul 13

KV-PRM: Efficient Process Reward Modeling via KV-Cache Transfer for Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2607. 09153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs) have been proven to be highly effective in guiding test-time scaling (TTS) methods, which significantly boost the capabilities of LLM-based multi-agent systems.

By Peng Kuang, Haibo Jin, Xiaoyu Han, Yanli Wang, Xiaopeng Yuan, Ye Yu, Kaidi Xu, Haohan Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

BlockServe: Block-Grained Continuous Batching for High-Throughput Diffusion LLM Serving

arXiv:2607. 08930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient serving of diffusion large language models (dLLMs) is hindered by convergence heterogeneity: when batching multiple requests, different sequences converge at different rates, causing faster requests to stall behind slower stragglers and introducing compute bubbles and tail latency.

By Yuanjie Zhu, Liangwei Yang, Ke Xu, Weizhi Zhang, Shanghao Li, Zihe Song, Philip S. Yu