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Optimizing GPU Collectives for Near Speed-of-Light Latency in LLM Inference

GPU collective communication is usually optimized for bandwidth, but latency is becoming critical for workloads like long-context decode-heavy LLM inference. Even microseconds of overhead in multi-GPU setups can significantly affect token generation performance and cost.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-07-17T16:36:43+00:00 Detected 2026-07-20T17:19:52+00:00
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GPU collective communication is usually optimized for bandwidth, but latency is becoming critical for workloads like long-context decode-heavy LLM inference. Even microseconds of overhead in multi-GPU setups can significantly affect token generation performance and cost.

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GPU collective communication is typically optimized for bandwidth, yet many emerging workloads are increasingly limited by latency. Long-context decode-heavy large language model (LLM) inference is a prime example, where serving large models requires multiple GPUs, and many small collectives lie directly on the...

As large language models require multiple GPUs, reducing latency in collective communication directly improves inference speed and efficiency. This optimization is crucial for scaling LLMs while managing operational costs.

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