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

32 citations · 47 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.DC2026

Empowering Hybrid Attention Models on NPUs

Yinyuan Zhang, Daliang Xu, Xiaolong Huang +4

Hybrid attention models have emerged as a crucial architecture for Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g., the Qwen3.5 and Kimi series). Their memory and computational efficiency make…

cs.DC2026

AI Infrastructure in Space: How Far Can We Go?

Qing Li, Qiyang Zhang, Daliang Xu +10

Satellites are becoming programmable computing platforms capable of running increasingly demanding AI workloads. This shift raises a systems problem: how can AI services remain dep…

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.CL2026

NanoSpec: Accelerating Speculative Decoding using Minimalist In-Context Vocabularies

Zhiyang Chen, Daliang Xu, Yinyuan Zhang +3

The massive vocabulary sizes of large language models, often exceeding 100k tokens, impose a computational bottleneck on the final linear projection layer during speculative decodi…

cs.LG2026

Quant.npu: Enabling Efficient Mobile NPU Inference for on-device LLMs via Fully Static Quantization

Jinghe Zhang, Daliang Xu, Chenghua Wang +5

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on mobile devices, where Neural Processing Units (NPUs) necessitate fully static quantization for optimal inference efficienc…

cs.CL2025

Accelerating Mobile Language Model via Speculative Decoding and NPU-Coordinated Execution

Zhiyang Chen, Daliang Xu, Haiyang Shen +5

Performing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) directly on mobile devices is promising for data privacy and responsiveness but is hindered by the architectural constraints of mobi…

cs.PF2025

ShadowNPU: System and Algorithm Co-design for NPU-Centric On-Device LLM Inference

Wangsong Yin, Daliang Xu, Mengwei Xu +2

On-device running Large Language Models (LLMs) is nowadays a critical enabler towards preserving user privacy. We observe that the attention operator falls back from the special-pu…

cs.LG2025

MobiEdit: Resource-efficient Knowledge Editing for Personalized On-device LLMs

Zhenyan Lu, Daliang Xu, Dongqi Cai +5

Large language models (LLMs) are deployed on mobile devices to power killer applications such as intelligent assistants. LLMs pre-trained on general corpora often hallucinate when…

cs.DC2024

Elastic On-Device LLM Service

Wangsong Yin, Rongjie Yi, Daliang Xu +3

On-device Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming mobile AI, catalyzing applications like UI automation without privacy concerns. Nowadays the common practice is to deploy a…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Fast On-device LLM Inference with NPUs

Daliang Xu, Hao Zhang, Liming Yang +4

On-device inference for Large Language Models (LLMs), driven by increasing privacy concerns and advancements of mobile-sized models, has gained significant interest. However, even…

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…