Beyond the Cloud: Edge Inference for Generative Large Language Models in Wireless Networks
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Generative Artificial Intelligenge (GAI) is revolutionizing the world with its unprecedented content creation ability. Large Language Model (LLM) is one of its most embraced branches. However, due to LLM’s substantial size and resource-intensive nature, it is cloud-hosted, raising concerns about privacy, usage limitations, and latency. In this paper, we propose to utilize ubiquitous distributed wireless edge computing resources for real-time LLM inference. Specifically, we introduce a novel LLM edge inference framework, incorporating batching and model quantization to ensure high throughput inference on resource-limited edge devices. Then, based on the architecture of transformer decoder-based LLMs, we formulate an edge inference optimization problem which is NP-hard, considering batch scheduling and joint allocation of communication and computation resources. The solution is the optimal throughput under edge resource constraints and heterogeneous user requirements on latency and accuracy. To solve this NP-hard problem, we develop an OT-GAH (Optimal Tree-search with Generalized Assignment Heuristics) algorithm with reasonable complexity and$\frac {1}{2}$-approximation ratio. We first design the OT algorithm with online tree-pruning for single-edge-node multi-user case, which navigates the inference request selection within the tree structure to miximize throughput. We then consider the multi-edge-node case and propose the GAH algorithm, which recrusively invokes the OT in each node’s inference scheduling iteration. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of OT-GAH batching over other benchmarks, revealing an over 45% time complexity reduction compared to brute-force searching.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".