MLSys 2025

Meta Info

Homepage: https://mlsys.org/Conferences/2025

Paper list: https://mlsys.org/virtual/2025/papers.html?filter=titles

Acceptance Rate

22.5% (= 61 / 271)

Papers

Large Language Models (LLMs)

• LLM Training

  • Lumos: Efficient Performance Modeling and Estimation for Large-scale LLM Training [Paper]

  • PipeFill: Using GPUs During Bubbles in Pipeline-parallel LLM Training [Paper] [arXiv]

    • CMU & AWS

  • Scaling Deep Learning Training with MPMD Pipeline Parallelism [Paper] [arXiv]

    • NVIDIA

  • Training Ultra Long Context Language Model with Fully Pipelined Distributed Transformer [Paper] [arXiv]

    • OSU & Microsoft

  • APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance [Paper] [Homepage] [arXiv] [Code]

    • UT-Austin & Meta AI

  • Radius: Range-based Gradient Sparsity for Large Foundation Model Pre-training [Paper]

  • SystemX: Federated LLM Pre-Training [Paper]

  • Photon: Federated LLM Pre-Training [Paper] [arXiv]

    • UCambridge

  • Balancing Pipeline Parallelism with Vocabulary Parallelism [Paper] [arXiv] [Code]

    • Sea AI Lab

  • Youmu: Efficient Columnar Data Pipeline for LLM Training [Paper]

• LLM Inference

  • XGrammar: Flexible and Efficient Structured Generation Engine for Large Language Models [Paper] [arXiv] [Homepage] [Code]

    • CMU & NVIDIA & SJTU & UC Berkeley

  • Seesaw: High-throughput LLM Inference via Model Re-sharding [Paper] [arXiv]

    • UofT

  • NEO: Saving GPU Memory Crisis with CPU Offloading for Online LLM Inference [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Harvard & UC Berkeley

  • FlexInfer: Flexible LLM Inference with CPU Computations [Paper]

    • GaTech

  • SOLA: Optimizing SLO Attainment for Large Language Model Serving with State-Aware Scheduling [Paper]

    • THU

  • Marconi: Prefix Caching for the Era of Hybrid LLMs [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Princeton & AWS

  • Rethinking Key-Value Cache Compression Techniques for Large Language Model Serving [Paper]

  • QServe: W4A8KV4 Quantization and System Co-design for Efficient LLM Serving [Paper] [arXiv] [Homepage] [Code]

    • MIT

  • ThunderServe: High-performance and Cost-efficient LLM Serving in Cloud Environments [Paper] [arXiv]

    • UCambridge & PKU & ETH

  • Efficient LLM Inference using Dynamic Input Pruning and Cache-Aware Masking [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Qualcomm AI Research

  • Context Parallelism for Scalable Million-Token Inference [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Meta

  • MEADOW: Memory-efficient Dataflow and Data Packing for Low Power Edge LLMs [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Yale & IIT Roorkie & IBM Research

• Attention Mechanisms

  • FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for LLM Inference Serving [Paper] [arXiv] [Homepage] [Code]

    • UW & NVIDIA

  • LServe: Efficient Long-sequence LLM Serving with Unified Sparse Attention [Paper] [arXiv] [Homepage] [Code]

    • MIT & NVIDIA

  • FastTree: Optimizing Attention Kernel and Runtime for Tree-Structured LLM Inference [Paper]

    • UCSD & AWS

  • FlexAttention: A Programming Model for Generating Fused Attention Variants [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Meta

  • LeanAttention: Hardware-Aware Scalable Attention Mechanism for the Decode-Phase of Transformers [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Microsoft

  • TurboAttention: Efficient Attention Approximation for High Throughputs LLMs [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Microsoft & GaTech

  • SampleAttention: Near-Lossless Acceleration of Long Context LLM Inference with Adaptive Structured Sparse Attention [Paper] [arXiv]

    • PKU & CUHK & Zhipu AI & THU & Shanghai AI Lab

• RLHF Training

  • ReaL: Efficient RLHF Training of Large Language Models with Parameter Reallocation [Paper] [arXiv] [Code]

    • THU

• MoE Inference

  • COMET: Fine-grained Computation-communication Overlapping for Mixture-of-Experts [Paper] [arXiv]

    • ByteDance Seed & SJTU

  • MiLo: Efficient Quantized MoE Inference with Mixture of Low-Rank Compensators [Paper] [Code (incoming)]

    • UIUC

• LoRA Fine-tuning

  • HyC-LoRA: Memory Efficient LoRA Fine-tuning with Hybrid Activation Compression [Paper]

• LLM Distillation

  • Self-Data Distillation for Recovering Quality in Pruned Large Language Models [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Cerebras Systems

• LLM Agent Simulation

  • AI Metropolis: Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Simulation with Out-of-order Execution [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Stanford & GaTech

• LLM for Relational Data Analytics

  • Optimizing LLM Queries in Relational Data Analytics Workloads [Paper] [arXiv]

    • UC Berkeley

Diffusion Models

• Video Generation

  • ScaleFusion: Scalable Inference of Spatial-Temporal Diffusion Transformers for High-Resolution Long Video Generation [Paper]
• Image Generation

  • DiffServe: Efficiently Serving Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Query-Aware Model Scaling [Paper] [arXiv]

    • UMass Amherst & Adobe Research

    • Construct model cascades → Easy queries can be processed by more lightweight diffusion models

Resource Management

• Scheduling

  • LAVA: Lifetime-Aware VM Allocation with Learned Distributions and Adaptation to Mispredictions [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Google

  • Morphling: Exploiting Job Reconfigurability for Deep Learning Cluster Scheduling [Paper] [arXiv]

    • ECNU & Alibaba & HUST

• Virtual CPU Oversubscription

  • ProtoRAIL: A Risk-cognizant Imitation Agent for Adaptive vCPU Oversubscription In the Cloud [Paper]

    • Microsoft

• AIOps

  • AIOpsLab: A Holistic Framework to Evaluate AI Agents for Enabling Autonomous Clouds [Paper] [arXiv]

    • Microsoft

Deep Learning Compilation

• TileLink: Generating Efficient Compute-Communication Overlapping Kernels using Tile-Centric Primitives [Paper]

Super-Resolution

• VoLUT: Efficient Volumetric streaming enhanced by LUT-based super-resolution [Paper] [arXiv]

  • UW-Madison & USC & MSRA

PDF Parsing

• AdaParse: An Adaptive Parallel PDF Parsing and Resource Scaling Engine [Paper] [Code]

Acronyms

• RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

• MoE: Mixture-of-Experts

• LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation

• LUT: Lookup Table