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most citedA Survey of Resource-efficient LLM and Multimodal Foundation Models

32 citations · 74 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.AI2026

PhyAI: Real-Time Physical AI at the Edge, Scalable Rollouts in the Cloud

Chenghua Wang, Daliang Xu, Dongqi Cai +23

Physical AI policies require inference throughout their lifecycle, including model evaluation, cloud reinforcement learning rollout, edge GPU serving, and onboard deployment. Altho…

cs.CV2026

When and Where to Look: Adaptive Visual Evidence Scheduling for Efficient Long Video Understanding

Ke Li, Jiayu Chen, Maoliang Li +5

Efficient long-video understanding requires vision--language models (VLMs) to reason over a small number of frames selected as sparse visual evidence. Existing relevance-based meth…

cs.CV2026

EcoVideo: Entropy-Orchestrated Video Generation Paradigm in Cloud-Edge Dynamics

Jiayu Chen, Hengyi Zhang, Maoliang Li +5

DiT video generation is latency-intensive due to iterative full-frame denoising, while prior cloud-edge methods largely rely on static inter-step decoupling and cannot leverage int…

cs.RO2026

VLN-Cache: Enabling Token Caching for VLN Models with Visual/Semantic Dynamics Awareness

Zihao Zheng, Zhihao Mao, Xingyue Zhou +9

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) increasingly relies on large vision-language models, but their inference cost conflicts with real-time deployment. Token caching is a promising…

cs.RO2026

HeiSD: Hybrid Speculative Decoding for Embodied Vision-Language-Action Models with Kinematic Awareness

Zihao Zheng, Zhihao Mao, Sicheng Tian +8

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models have become the mainstream solution for robot control, but suffer from slow inference speeds. Speculative Decoding (SD) is a promising accelerat…

cs.LG2026

DyQ-VLA: Temporal-Dynamic-Aware Quantization for Embodied Vision-Language-Action Models

Zihao Zheng, Hangyu Cao, Sicheng Tian +12

Vision-language-action (VLA) models achieve favorable task performance, yet runtime errors in closed-loop execution evolve with alternating updates of actions and observations. Exi…

cs.DC2026

ARL-Tangram: Unleash the Resource Efficiency in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Bangjun Xiao, Yihao Zhao, Xiangwei Deng +9

Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a transformative workload in cloud clusters, enabling large language models (LLMs) to solve complex problems through interactions…

cs.DC2026

KUBEDIRECT: Unleashing the Full Power of the Cluster Manager for Serverless Computing

Sheng Qi, Zhiquan Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu +1

FaaS platforms rely on cluster managers like Kubernetes for resource management. Kubernetes is popular due to its state-centric APIs that decouple the control plane into modular co…

cs.DC2025

WarmServe: Enabling One-for-Many GPU Prewarming for Multi-LLM Serving

Chiheng Lou, Sheng Qi, Rui Kang +5

Deploying multiple models within shared GPU clusters is a key strategy to improve resource efficiency in large language model (LLM) serving. Existing multi-LLM serving systems impr…

cs.DC2025

TokenLake: A Unified Segment-level Prefix Cache Pool for Fine-grained Elastic Long-Context LLM Serving

Bingyang Wu, Zili Zhang, Yinmin Zhong +4

Prefix caching is crucial to accelerate multi-turn interactions and requests with shared prefixes. At the cluster level, existing prefix caching systems are tightly coupled with re…

cs.IR2025★ 4 cited

WebANNS: Fast and Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Web Browsers

Mugeng Liu, Siqi Zhong, Qi Yang +3

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has become vital to modern AI infrastructure, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Numerous in-browser ANNS…

cs.DC2025

SeaLLM: Service-Aware and Latency-Optimized Resource Sharing for Large Language Model Inference

Yihao Zhao, Jiadun Chen, Peng Sun +3

Large language models (LLMs) with different architectures and sizes have been developed. Serving each LLM with dedicated GPUs leads to resource waste and service inefficiency due t…

cs.DC2025

HydraServe: Minimizing Cold Start Latency for Serverless LLM Serving in Public Clouds

Chiheng Lou, Sheng Qi, Chao Jin +5

With the proliferation of large language model (LLM) variants, developers are turning to serverless computing for cost-efficient LLM deployment. However, public cloud providers oft…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

LoongTrain: Efficient Training of Long-Sequence LLMs with Head-Context Parallelism

Diandian Gu, Peng Sun, Qinghao Hu +11

Efficiently training LLMs with long sequences is important yet challenged by the massive computation and memory requirements. Sequence parallelism has been proposed to tackle these…

cs.DC2024★ 2 cited

LoongServe: Efficiently Serving Long-Context Large Language Models with Elastic Sequence Parallelism

Bingyang Wu, Shengyu Liu, Yinmin Zhong +3

The context window of large language models (LLMs) is rapidly increasing, leading to a huge variance in resource usage between different requests as well as between different phase…

cs.OS2024★ 5 cited

LLM as a System Service on Mobile Devices

Wangsong Yin, Mengwei Xu, Yuanchun Li +1

Being more powerful and intrusive into user-device interactions, LLMs are eager for on-device execution to better preserve user privacy. In this work, we propose a new paradigm of…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Anatomizing Deep Learning Inference in Web Browsers

Qipeng Wang, Shiqi Jiang, Zhenpeng Chen +6

Web applications have increasingly adopted Deep Learning (DL) through in-browser inference, wherein DL inference performs directly within Web browsers. The actual performance of in…

cs.DC2024★ 15 cited

DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput-optimized Large Language Model Serving

Yinmin Zhong, Shengyu Liu, Junda Chen +5

DistServe improves the performance of large language models (LLMs) serving by disaggregating the prefill and decoding computation. Existing LLM serving systems colocate the two pha…

cs.LG2024★ 32 cited

A Survey of Resource-efficient LLM and Multimodal Foundation Models

Mengwei Xu, Wangsong Yin, Dongqi Cai +15

Large foundation models, including large language models (LLMs), vision transformers (ViTs), diffusion, and LLM-based multimodal models, are revolutionizing the entire machine lear…

cs.NI2023★ 13 cited

LLMCad: Fast and Scalable On-device Large Language Model Inference

Daliang Xu, Wangsong Yin, Xin Jin +4

Generative tasks, such as text generation and question answering, hold a crucial position in the realm of mobile applications. Due to their sensitivity to privacy concerns, there i…