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most citedEfficient Deployment of Large Language Models on Resource-constrained Devices

3 citations · 3 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

ReLoRA: Knowledge-Reusing Adaptation for Fast Rollout of Evolving LLM Services

Yang Xu, Zihuai Xu, Hongli Xu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as continuously evolving services, where frequent base-model updates may invalidate previously deployed task-specific Low-Ran…

cs.DC2025

DySTop

Yizhou Shi, Qianpiao Ma, Yan Xu +4

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potential distributed learning paradigm that enables model training on edge devices (i.e., workers) while preserving data privacy. However,…

cs.DC2025

Cross-region Model Training with Communication-Computation Overlapping and Delay Compensation

Ying Zhu, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +3

Training large language models (LLMs) requires massive computational resources, often necessitating the aggregation of geographically distributed data centers (\ie, cross-region tr…

cs.LG2025

Resource-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Heterogeneous Data

Jun Liu, Yunming Liao, Hongli Xu +1

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) via federated learning, i.e., FedLLM, has been proposed to adapt LLMs for various downstream applications in a privacy-preserving way. To r…

cs.LG2025

A Novel Hat-Shaped Device-Cloud Collaborative Inference Framework for Large Language Models

Zuan Xie, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +2

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed a substantial surge in demand for LLM services. While traditional cloud-based LLM services satisfy high-accuracy…

cs.LG2025

Lightweight and Post-Training Structured Pruning for On-Device Large Lanaguage Models

Zihuai Xu, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +3

Considering the hardware-friendly characteristics and broad applicability, structured pruning has emerged as an efficient solution to reduce the resource demands of large language…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Efficient Deployment of Large Language Models on Resource-constrained Devices

Zhiwei Yao, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +2

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on resource-constrained (or weak) devices presents significant challenges due to limited resources and heterogeneous data distribution. To ad…

cs.DC2024

Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning on Heterogeneous Devices

Jun Liu, Yunming Liao, Hongli Xu +3

Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) has been proposed to fine-tune the pre-trained language models in a distributed manner. However, there are two critical challenges for efficient FedFT…

cs.DC2024

Collaborative Inference for Large Models with Task Offloading and Early Exiting

Zuan Xie, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +2

In 5G smart cities, edge computing is employed to provide nearby computing services for end devices, and the large-scale models (e.g., GPT and LLaMA) can be deployed at the network…

cs.DC2024

ParallelSFL: A Novel Split Federated Learning Framework Tackling Heterogeneity Issues

Yunming Liao, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +3

Mobile devices contribute more than half of the world's web traffic, providing massive and diverse data for powering various federated learning (FL) applications. In order to avoid…

cs.LG2023

MergeSFL: Split Federated Learning with Feature Merging and Batch Size Regulation

Yunming Liao, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +3

Recently, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a popular technique for edge AI to mine valuable knowledge in edge computing (EC) systems. To mitigate the computing/communication…

cs.LG2023

SemiSFL: Split Federated Learning on Unlabeled and Non-IID Data

Yang Xu, Yunming Liao, Hongli Xu +3

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged to allow multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models on their private data at the network edge. However, training and depl…

cs.NI2022

Adaptive Configuration for Heterogeneous Participants in Decentralized Federated Learning

Yunming Liao, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu +2

Data generated at the network edge can be processed locally by leveraging the paradigm of edge computing (EC). Aided by EC, decentralized federated learning (DFL), which overcomes…