7 papers
KernelCraft: Benchmarking for Agentic Close-to-Metal Kernel Generation on Emerging Hardware
Jiayi Nie, Haoran Wu, Yao Lai +9
New AI accelerators with novel instruction set architectures (ISAs) often require developers to manually craft low-level kernels, a time-consuming and error-prone process that does…
NPU Design for Diffusion Language Model Inference
Binglei Lou, Haoran Wu, Kevin Lau +9
Diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) fundamentally depart from traditional autoregressive (AR) LLM inference: they leverage bidirectional attention, block-wise KV cache refreshing, cross-s…
MemExplorer: Navigating the Heterogeneous Memory Design Space for Agentic Inference NPUs
Haoran Wu, Zeyu Cao, Yao Lai +15
Emerging agentic LLM workloads are driving rapidly growing demand on both memory capacity and bandwidth, with different phases of inference (e.g., prefill and decode) imposing dist…
Combating the Memory Walls: Optimization Pathways for Long-Context Agentic LLM Inference
Haoran Wu, Can Xiao, Jiayi Nie +15
LLMs now form the backbone of AI agents across a diverse range of applications, including tool use, command-line interfaces, and web or computer interaction. These agentic LLM infe…
Low-Latency FPGA Control System for Real-Time Neural Network Processing in CCD-Based Trapped-Ion Qubit Measurement
Binglei Lou, Gautham Duddi Krishnaswaroop, Filip Wojcicki +5
Accurate and low-latency qubit state measurement is critical for trapped-ion quantum computing. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated to enhance detection fidelity…
Enhancing LUT-based Deep Neural Networks Inference through Architecture and Connectivity Optimization
Binglei Lou, Ruilin Wu, Philip Leong
Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices such as FPGAs requires a careful balance among latency, power, and hardware resource usage, while maintai…