7 papers
When Does Disaggregation Pay? Simulating Prefill--Decode--Attention--FFN Specialization for Agentic LLM Inference
Przemyslaw Forys, Haoran Wu, Can Xiao +8
Agentic inference now dominates the LLM inference landscape, requiring LLMs to actively engage in multi-turn interactions with tool-calling capabilities. This introduces a more com…
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…
TriAxialKV: Toward Extreme Low-Precision KV-Cache Quantization for Agentic Inference Tasks
Hanzhang Shen, Haoran Wu, Yiren Zhao +1
Agentic workloads have emerged as a major workload for LLM inference. They differ significantly from chat-only workloads, requiring long-context processing, the ability to handle m…
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…
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…
Rethinking Compute Substrates for 3D-Stacked Near-Memory LLM Decoding: Microarchitecture-Scheduling Co-Design
Chenyang Ai, Yixing Zhang, Haoran Wu +3
Large language model (LLM) decoding is a major inference bottleneck because its low arithmetic intensity makes performance highly sensitive to memory bandwidth. 3D-stacked near-mem…