3 papers
cs.DC2026
Scheduling Mixed RL Rollouts Beyond Prefix Locality
Zetao Hong, Song Yuan, Yuanhao Ding +4
Modern reinforcement learning (RL) post-training pipelines for large language models (LLMs) increasingly combine rollout workloads across multiple domains and feedback paradigms. P…
cs.DC2026
STAR: Decode-Phase Rescheduling for LLM Inference
Zhibin Wang, Zetao Hong, Xue Li +8
Large Language Model (LLM) inference has emerged as a fundamental paradigm, however, variations in output length cause severe workload imbalance in the decode phase, particularly f…
cs.CL2026
Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…