4 papers
Spark Transformer: Reactivating Sparsity in FFN and Attention
Chong You, Kan Wu, Zhipeng Jia +16
The discovery of the lazy neuron phenomenon in trained Transformers, where the vast majority of neurons in their feed-forward networks (FFN) are inactive for each token, has spurre…
IC-Cache: Efficient Large Language Model Serving via In-context Caching
Yifan Yu, Yu Gan, Nikhil Sarda +7
Large language models (LLMs) have excelled in various applications, yet serving them at scale is challenging due to their substantial resource demands and high latency. Our real-wo…
Wave: Offloading Resource Management to SmartNIC Cores
Jack Tigar Humphries, Neel Natu, Kostis Kaffes +5
SmartNICs are increasingly deployed in datacenters to offload tasks from server CPUs, improving the efficiency and flexibility of datacenter security, networking and storage. Optim…
Concorde: Fast and Accurate CPU Performance Modeling with Compositional Analytical-ML Fusion
Arash Nasr-Esfahany, Mohammad Alizadeh, Victor Lee +9
Cycle-level simulators such as gem5 are widely used in microarchitecture design, but they are prohibitively slow for large-scale design space explorations. We present Concorde, a n…