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most citedDesigning Large Foundation Models for Efficient Training and Inference: A Survey

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cs.LG2026

To Keep or Not to Keep: Learning KV Cache Retention in Disaggregated LLM Serving Systems

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Eric Jiang +2

Disaggregated \textsc{LLM} serving separates prefill and decode across node pools, placing a network fabric between \textsc{KV}-cache computation and consumption. This breaks a key…

cs.AR2026

MeshKV: A Network-on-Chip KV Cache Fabric for Scalable Transformer Decoding Accelerators

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

Autoregressive transformer decoding is constrained by irregular key-value (KV) cache movement on tiled accelerators. Prior compression and DRAM-placement systems still concentrate…

cs.CR2026

Privacy-Preserving Topology-Guided Safety for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems via Federated Graph Learning

Jinxi Yu, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Levina Li +6

Topology-guided safeguards for LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) train a GNN over the inter-agent communication graph to localize risky agents and intervene on the topology---but…

cs.LG2026

RUBRIC: Realism--Utility Balanced Ranking for Imbalanced Classification

Yanxuan Yu, Dong Liu, Shu Wang +9

Class imbalance poses a fundamental challenge in risk-sensitive applications such as fraud detection and medical diagnosis, where minority-class samples are scarce yet critical for…

cs.CV2026

HSMLA: Hierarchical Softmax Multi-scale Linear Attention for Efficient Vision Transformers

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Renata Borovica-Gajic +2

Vision transformers face significant computational overheads in high-resolution dense prediction due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. Linear attention offers efficien…

cs.RO2026

OLIVE: Online Low-Rank Incremental Learning for Efficient Adaptive Exoskeletons

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ben Lengerich +2

Wearable exoskeleton systems hold promise for restoring mobility in individuals with physical impairments, yet most existing controllers rely on static gait policies that cannot ad…

cs.CL2026

Thoughts-as-Planning: Latent World Models for Chain-of-Thoughts Optimization via Reinforcement Planning

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ying Nian Wu

The success of large language models (LLMs) across diverse NLP tasks has elevated the importance of reasoning chain optimization as a critical step in aligning model behavior with…

cs.LG2026

Accelerating Frequency Domain Diffusion Models with Error-Feedback Event-Driven Caching

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ying Nian Wu

Diffusion models achieve remarkable success in time series generation. However, slow inference limits their practical deployment. We propose E-CRF (Error-Feedback Event-Driven…

cs.LG2026

MKA: Memory-Keyed Attention for Efficient Long-Context Reasoning

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ben Lengerich +1

As long-context language modeling becomes increasingly important, the cost of maintaining and attending to large Key/Value (KV) caches grows rapidly, becoming a major bottleneck in…

cs.CV2026

AdaCorrection: Adaptive Offset Cache Correction for Accurate Diffusion Transformers

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ben Lengerich +1

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in high-fidelity image and video generation but suffer from expensive inference due to their iterative denoising…

cs.AI2025

CXL-SpecKV: A Disaggregated FPGA Speculative KV-Cache for Datacenter LLM Serving

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing tasks, but their deployment in datacenter environments faces significant challenges due to the massive…

cs.CL2025

CSV-Decode: Certifiable Sub-Vocabulary Decoding for Efficient Large Language Model Inference

Dong Liu, Shu Wang, Yanxuan Yu +2

Large language models face significant computational bottlenecks during inference due to the expensive output layer computation over large vocabularies. We present CSV-Decode, a no…

cs.LG2025

Boundary-Aware Adversarial Filtering for Reliable Diagnosis under Extreme Class Imbalance

Yanxuan Yu, Michael S. Hughes, Julien Lee +2

We study classification under extreme class imbalance where recall and calibration are both critical, for example in medical diagnosis scenarios. We propose AF-SMOTE, a mathematica…

cs.CL2025

SPI: Query-Depth-Adaptive Indexing for Streaming RAG in Vector Databases

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

Vector databases (VecDBs) are increasingly deployed in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines where query processing and document ingestion occur concurrently. The index la…

cs.CL2025

-Attention: Online Efficient Sparse Transformers for Long-Context Modeling

Pike D. Liu, Chang Liu, Yanxuan Yu

Sparse attention is crucial in long-context Transformers, which restricts each token to a limited neighborhood and thereby reduces the quadratic cost of full self-attention. Local…

cs.AI2025

Cognitive Load Traces as Symbolic and Visual Accounts of Deep Model Cognition

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

We propose \textbf{Cognitive Load Traces} (CLTs) as a mid-level interpretability framework for deep models, inspired by Cognitive Load Theory in human cognition. CLTs are defined a…

cs.AI2025

HSGM: Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory for Scalable Long-Text Semantics

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

Semantic parsing of long documents remains challenging due to quadratic growth in pairwise composition and memory requirements. We introduce \textbf{Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memo…

cs.DC2025

TinyServe: Query-Aware Cache Selection for Efficient LLM Serving

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

Serving large language models (LLMs) efficiently remains challenging due to the high memory and latency overhead of key-value (KV) cache access during autoregressive decoding. We p…

cs.CL2025

SemToken: Semantic-Aware Tokenization for Efficient Long-Context Language Modeling

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

Tokenization plays a critical role in language modeling, yet existing approaches such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) or WordPiece operate purely on frequency statistics, ignoring the…

cs.AI2025

QuickMerge++: Fast Token Merging with Autoregressive Prior

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu

As generative models scale to larger inputs across language, vision, and video domains, the cost of token-level computation has become a key bottleneck. While prior work suggests t…

cs.DC2025

PiKV: KV Cache Management System for Mixture of Experts

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ben Lengerich +1

As large-scale language models continue to scale up in both size and context length, the memory and communication cost of key-value (KV) cache storage has become a major bottleneck…

cs.LG2025

FastCache: Fast Caching for Diffusion Transformer Through Learnable Linear Approximation

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Jiayi Zhang +3

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are powerful generative models but remain computationally intensive due to their iterative structure and deep transformer stacks. To alleviate this ine…

cs.LG2025

MobileNetV2: A lightweight classification model for home-based sleep apnea screening

Hui Pan, Yanxuan Yu, Jilun Ye +1

This study proposes a novel lightweight neural network model leveraging features extracted from electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiratory signals for early OSA screening. ECG signals…

cs.DC2024★ 5 cited

Designing Large Foundation Models for Efficient Training and Inference: A Survey

Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Yite Wang +5

This paper focuses on modern efficient training and inference technologies on foundation models and illustrates them from two perspectives: model and system design. Model and Syste…