LEAP: LLM Inference on Scalable PIM-NoC Architecture with Balanced Dataflow and Fine-Grained Parallelism

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Autori principali: Wang, Yimin, Chong, Yue Jiet, Fong, Xuanyao
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author Wang, Yimin
Chong, Yue Jiet
Fong, Xuanyao
author_facet Wang, Yimin
Chong, Yue Jiet
Fong, Xuanyao
contents Large language model (LLM) inference has been a prevalent demand in daily life and industries. The large tensor sizes and computing complexities in LLMs have brought challenges to memory, computing, and databus. This paper proposes a computation/memory/communication co-designed non-von Neumann accelerator by aggregating processing-in-memory (PIM) and computational network-on-chip (NoC), termed LEAP. The matrix multiplications in LLMs are assigned to PIM or NoC based on the data dynamicity to maximize data locality. Model partition and mapping are optimized by heuristic design space exploration. Dedicated fine-grained parallelism and tiling techniques enable high-throughput dataflow across the distributed resources in PIM and NoC. The architecture is evaluated on Llama 1B/8B/13B models and shows $\sim$2.55$\times$ throughput (tokens/sec) improvement and $\sim$71.94$\times$ energy efficiency (tokens/Joule) boost compared to the A100 GPU.
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spellingShingle LEAP: LLM Inference on Scalable PIM-NoC Architecture with Balanced Dataflow and Fine-Grained Parallelism
Wang, Yimin
Chong, Yue Jiet
Fong, Xuanyao
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Large language model (LLM) inference has been a prevalent demand in daily life and industries. The large tensor sizes and computing complexities in LLMs have brought challenges to memory, computing, and databus. This paper proposes a computation/memory/communication co-designed non-von Neumann accelerator by aggregating processing-in-memory (PIM) and computational network-on-chip (NoC), termed LEAP. The matrix multiplications in LLMs are assigned to PIM or NoC based on the data dynamicity to maximize data locality. Model partition and mapping are optimized by heuristic design space exploration. Dedicated fine-grained parallelism and tiling techniques enable high-throughput dataflow across the distributed resources in PIM and NoC. The architecture is evaluated on Llama 1B/8B/13B models and shows $\sim$2.55$\times$ throughput (tokens/sec) improvement and $\sim$71.94$\times$ energy efficiency (tokens/Joule) boost compared to the A100 GPU.
title LEAP: LLM Inference on Scalable PIM-NoC Architecture with Balanced Dataflow and Fine-Grained Parallelism
topic Hardware Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14781