3 papers
cs.LG2026
DumpsterCluster: From Dumpster Diving to Serving LLaMA-70B on $60 GPUs
Zeyu Cao, Xuan Guo, Cheng Zhang +3
As AI datacenters retire functional GPUs, vast quantities of still capable accelerators enter secondary markets. This paper investigates whether these retired GPUs can find a produ…
cs.AR2026
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…
cs.AR2026
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…