3 papers
cs.LG2025
Step-3 is Large yet Affordable: Model-system Co-design for Cost-effective Decoding
StepFun, :, Bin Wang +195
Large language models (LLMs) face low hardware efficiency during decoding, especially for long-context reasoning tasks. This paper introduces Step-3, a 321B-parameter VLM with hard…
cs.LG2025
SpecRouter: Adaptive Routing for Multi-Level Speculative Decoding in Large Language Models
Hang Wu, Jianian Zhu, Yinghui Li +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) present a critical trade-off between inference quality and computational cost: larger models offer superior capabilities but incur significant latency,…
cs.MM2025
FastCache: Optimizing Multimodal LLM Serving through Lightweight KV-Cache Compression Framework
Jianian Zhu, Hang Wu, Haojie Wang +4
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serving systems commonly employ KV-cache compression to reduce memory footprint. However, existing compression methods introduce significa…