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most citedHMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Efficient Long Context Language Processing

2 citations · 3 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

HMT: Semantic Hierarchy-Aware Hierarchical Memory Transformer

Maryam Haghifam, Zifan He, Jason Cong +1

Transformer-based LLMs achieve strong results on many language tasks; however, long inputs remain challenging because context windows are finite, and prefill latency and memory gro…

cs.DC2026

Understand and Accelerate Memory Processing Pipeline for Large Language Model Inference

Zifan He, Rui Ma, Yizhou Sun +1

Modern large language models (LLMs) increasingly depends on efficient long-context processing and generation mechanisms, including sparse attention, retrieval-augmented generation…

cs.AR2026

FlexLLM: Composable HLS Library for Flexible Hybrid LLM Accelerator Design

Jiahao Zhang, Zifan He, Nicholas Fraser +3

We present FlexLLM, a composable High-Level Synthesis (HLS) library for rapid development of domain-specific LLM accelerators. FlexLLM exposes key architectural degrees of freedom…

cs.AR2025★ 1 cited

LUT-LLM: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Memory-based Computations on FPGAs

Zifan He, Shengyu Ye, Rui Ma +2

The rapid development of large language models (LLM) has greatly enhanced everyday applications. While many FPGA-based accelerators, with flexibility for fine-grained data control,…

cs.AR2025

InTAR: Inter-Task Auto-Reconfigurable Accelerator Design for High Data Volume Variation in DNNs

Zifan He, Anderson Truong, Yingqi Cao +1

The rise of deep neural networks (DNNs) has driven an increased demand for computing power and memory. Modern DNNs exhibit high data volume variation (HDV) across tasks, which pose…

cs.ET2025

Monolithic 3D FPGAs Utilizing Back-End-of-Line Configuration Memories

Faaiq Waqar, Jiahao Zhang, Anni Lu +3

This work presents a novel monolithic 3D (M3D) FPGA architecture that leverages stackable back-end-of-line (BEOL) transistors to implement configuration memory and pass gates, sign…

cs.AI2024

Dynamic-Width Speculative Beam Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference

Zongyue Qin, Zifan He, Neha Prakriya +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown outstanding performance across numerous real-world tasks. However, the autoregressive nature of these models makes the inference process slo…

cs.CL2024

Optimized Multi-Token Joint Decoding with Auxiliary Model for LLM Inference

Zongyue Qin, Ziniu Hu, Zifan He +3

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks, yet their inference processes are hindered by substantial time and energy demands due to single-…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Efficient Long Context Language Processing

Zifan He, Yingqi Cao, Zongyue Qin +3

Transformer-based large language models (LLM) have been widely used in language processing applications. However, due to the memory constraints of the devices, most of them restric…