The KV Cache Is the New Memory Wall
The KV Cache Is the New Memory Wall: Three Regimes and Five Domains of Long-Context LLM Inference TL;DR — Long-context LLM decode inference is bound by memory bandwidth,…
Hardware Architecture
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SPECTRA: Adaptive Execution of Speculative Decoding on a Runtime-Reconfigurable Tiled Architecture
SPECTRA: A Reconfigurable LLM Accelerator That Changes Its Hardware With Every Inference Stage TL;DR Speculative decoding oscillates between prefill (compute-bound GEMM),…
The Other Half of the Memory Wall: Serving 35B MoEs from SSD with Trained Routing Prediction
Waking the MoE on SSD: Serving a 35B MoE at 20 tok/s on a 24 GB Desktop with Edge0 One-line summary (TL;DR) Even at 4-bit, a 35B-class MoE occupies 19.5 GB and cannot…