3 papers
cs.CL2025
TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression
Jingyu Liu, Xin Dong, Zhifan Ye +6
Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally…
cs.CL2025
HAMburger: Accelerating LLM Inference via Token Smashing
Jingyu Liu, Ce Zhang
The growing demand for efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference requires a holistic optimization on algorithms, systems, and hardware. However, very few works have fundamenta…
cs.CL2025
Speculative Prefill: Turbocharging TTFT with Lightweight and Training-Free Token Importance Estimation
Jingyu Liu, Beidi Chen, Ce Zhang
Improving time-to-first-token (TTFT) is an essentially important objective in modern large language model (LLM) inference engines. Optimizing TTFT directly results in higher maxima…