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LSF Registration Deadline and Oral Examination Date

Written on 30.10.26 by Christina Giannoula

Hi everyone,

Please note the following important deadlines and dates for the AI Systems Seminar:

  1. LSF Registration – Strict Deadline: November 4, 2026

    All students must register for the seminar in the LSF system by November 4 to be eligible for examination in the course. This deadline… Read more

Hi everyone,

Please note the following important deadlines and dates for the AI Systems Seminar:

  1. LSF Registration – Strict Deadline: November 4, 2026

    All students must register for the seminar in the LSF system by November 4 to be eligible for examination in the course. This deadline is strict, so please make sure to complete your registration on time.

  2. Oral Examination – February 22, 2027 (Afternoon)

    The oral examinations for the seminar will take place on February 22, 2027, in the afternoon. Further details regarding the exact schedule will be announced later.

Best,
Christina

Paper reviews

Written on 25.10.26 (last change on 25.10.26) by Basel Fakhri

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Sindarov, Asadbek H2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for… Read more

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Sindarov, Asadbek H2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for LLM Inference Serving MPK: A Compiler and Runtime for Mega-Kernelizing Tensor Programs
Kazemi, Mehrafarin TANGRAM: Optimized Coarse-Grained Dataflow for Scalable NN Accelerators POD-Attention: Unlocking Full Prefill-Decode Overlap for Faster LLM Inference
 
DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill
and Decoding for Goodputoptimized 
Large Language Model Serving
Le, Hoang Dang Nguyen MPK: A Compiler and Runtime for Mega-Kernelizing Tensor Programs ARC: Warp-level Adaptive Atomic Reduction in GPUs to Accelerate Differentiable Rendering ThunderKittens: Simple, Fast, and Adorable AI Kernels
Kooshky, Amirmohammad Eyeriss: A Spatial Architecture for Energy-Efficient Dataflow for
Convolutional Neural Networks
MP-Rec: Hardware-Software Co-Design to Enable Multi-Path Recommendation TVM: An Automated End-to-End Optimizing Compiler for Deep Learning
Farag, Yousef Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving  with PagedAttention  Orca: A Distributed Serving System for Transformer-Based Generative Models ARC: Warp-level Adaptive Atomic Reduction in GPUs to Accelerate Differentiable Rendering
Hariharan, Tarun POD-Attention: Unlocking Full PrefillDecode Overlap for
Faster LLM Inference
PointAcc: Efficient Point Cloud Accelerator throttLL’eM: Predictive GPU Throttling for Energy Efficient LLM Inference Serving
Wang, Zirui Zeus: Understanding and  Optimizing GPU Energy Consumption of DNN Training ELSA: Hardware-Software Co-Design for Efficient,  Lightweight Self-Attention Mechanism in Neural Networks Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving  with PagedAttention 
Patel, Nehali Sudarshan ELSA: Hardware-Software Co-Design for Efficient,  Lightweight Self-Attention Mechanism in Neural Networks FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for LLM Inference Serving AttAcc! Unleashing the Power of PIM for Batched Transformer-based Generative Model Inference
K.A., Abdul Manan WLB-LLM: Workload-Balanced 4D Parallelism for Large Language Model Training FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models
Subedi, Ashish H2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference  Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM DynamoLLM: Designing LLM Inference Clusters for Performance and Energy Efficiency
Suntoro, Marcellius William H2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch 
LLM Inference
Orca: A Distributed Serving System for Transformer-Based Generative Models NanoFlow: Towards Optimal Large Language Model Serving Throughput
       

 

Presentations Schedule

Written on 24.10.26 (last change on 29.10.26) by Basel Fakhri

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DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput optimized Large Language Model Serving      Kazemi, Mehrafarin Basel Nov 9
MPK: A Compiler and Runtime for… Read more

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DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput optimized Large Language Model Serving      Kazemi, Mehrafarin Basel Nov 9
MPK: A Compiler and Runtime for Mega-Kernelizing Tensor Programs Sindarov, Asadbek Basel Nov 9
ThunderKittens: Simple, Fast, and Adorable AI Kernels Le, Hoang Dang Nguyen Dionysios Nov 16
TVM: An Automated End-to-End Optimizing Compiler for Deep Learning Kooshky, Amirmohammad Dionysios Nov 23
ARC: Warp-level Adaptive Atomic Reduction in GPUs to Accelerate Differentiable Rendering Farag, Yousef Prathamesh Nov 30
throttLL’eM: Predictive GPU Throttling for Energy Efficient LLM Inference Serving Hariharan, Tarun Basel Dec 7
Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention  Wang, Zirui Basel Dec 14
AttAcc! Unleashing the Power of PIM for Batched Transformer-based Generative Model Inference Patel, Nehali Sudarshan Prathamesh       Jan 11
ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models K.A., Abdul Manan Dionysios Jan 18
DynamoLLM: Designing LLM Inference Clusters for Performance and Energy Efficiency Subedi, Ashish Prathamesh Jan 25
NanoFlow: Towards Optimal Large Language Model Serving Throughput Suntoro, Marcellius William.      Dionysios Feb 1
       
       

 

Course Schedule

Written on 25.08.26 (last change on 04.09.26) by Prathamesh Doundkar

The class meets on

  • Kick-Off Lecture: Oct 14th, Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00
  • First Lecture: Oct 21st, Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00
  • Weekly Lectures: Starting Oct 26th (included), a weekly lecture will take place every Monday at 15:00 - 17:00

Location: Campus E1.5 029, Saarbrücken (MPI-SWS… Read more

The class meets on

  • Kick-Off Lecture: Oct 14th, Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00
  • First Lecture: Oct 21st, Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00
  • Weekly Lectures: Starting Oct 26th (included), a weekly lecture will take place every Monday at 15:00 - 17:00

Location: Campus E1.5 029, Saarbrücken (MPI-SWS building)

Note: people who have registered for the course it is important to attend the first lecture on Oct 14 so that they will understand the course logistics and the first assignment which is due to the first week of the semester

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