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arxiv: 2604.17709 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-20 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.DC

DeInfer: Efficient Parallel Inferencing for Decomposed Large Language Models

You-Liang Huang , Xinhao Huang , Chengxi Liao , Zeyi Wen This is my paper

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DeInfer introduces optimizations to enable efficient parallel inference for decomposed large language models.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Existing LLM decomposition methods improve task performance but suffer from inefficient parallel inference as models scale. DeInfer counters this by offering a dedicated system with multiple optimizations that enhance performance and integrate with current techniques. Experiments confirm DeInfer's advantages, indicating it supports practical use of scaled decomposed models. This matters because inference speed determines whether large models can be deployed effectively in applications needing quick outputs. Sympathetic readers see it as a step toward making model decomposition more usable at scale.

Core claim

This paper introduces DeInfer, a high-performance inference system dedicated to parallel inference of decomposed LLMs. It consists of multiple optimizations to maximize performance and be compatible with state-of-the-art optimization techniques. Extensive experiments demonstrate its superiority, suggesting it can greatly facilitate the parallel inference of decomposed LLMs.

What carries the argument

DeInfer, the inference system with its collection of optimizations tailored for parallel execution of decomposed LLM components.

If this is right

  • Parallel inference performance improves, allowing larger decomposed models without proportional slowdowns.
  • Compatibility ensures adoption alongside other optimizations like quantization or pruning.
  • Overall, it makes decomposition a more attractive strategy for building high-performance LLMs.
  • Facilitates scaling by addressing the inference bottleneck identified in prior decomposition works.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar optimization approaches might benefit non-decomposed LLMs or other AI models with parallelizable structures.
  • Deploying DeInfer could lower the cost of running decomposed models in production environments.
  • Future work might explore combining DeInfer with specific decomposition techniques for even better results.

Load-bearing premise

That the optimizations within DeInfer consistently improve parallel inference performance across different decomposed LLMs and scales without compromising model accuracy or system compatibility.

What would settle it

Running DeInfer on a decomposed LLM at scale and finding that inference throughput or latency does not exceed that of unoptimized baselines, or that accuracy drops.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.17709 by Chengxi Liao, Xinhao Huang, You-Liang Huang, Zeyi Wen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Parallel inference throughput of decomposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Self-attention computation is duplicated in parallel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Low-rank communication design in decomposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: KV cache reconstruction process. shown, most variants can be supported by DeInfer, which includes but is not limited to LLaMA [5], OPT [22], and Qwen [19] models. 5 EXPERIMENTS In this section, we evaluate our proposed DeInfer with the focus on the following three aspects: throughput analysis, latency analysis, and system-level analysis. Additionally, we conduct experiments to demonstrate the necessity of … view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Batched generation performance of different mod [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Batched generation performance of different mod [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Generation performance of LLaMA-3-70B of differ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗
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Existing works on large language model (LLM) decomposition mainly focus on improving performance on downstream tasks, but they ignore the poor parallel inference performance when trying to scale up the model size. To mitigate this important performance issue, this paper introduces DeInfer, a high-performance inference system dedicated to parallel inference of decomposed LLMs. It consists of multiple optimizations to maximize performance and be compatible with state-of-the-art optimization techniques. Extensive experiments are carried out to evaluate DeInfer's performance, where the results demonstrate its superiority, suggesting it can greatly facilitate the parallel inference of decomposed LLMs.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces DeInfer, a dedicated inference system for parallel execution of decomposed large language models. It describes multiple optimizations intended to maximize performance and ensure compatibility with existing state-of-the-art techniques, and asserts that extensive experiments demonstrate the system's superiority in this setting.

Significance. If the claimed performance gains can be verified, DeInfer would address a practical bottleneck in scaling decomposed LLMs, potentially enabling larger models to be deployed with better parallel efficiency. This would be a useful systems-level contribution to efficient LLM inference.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract asserts that 'extensive experiments are carried out to evaluate DeInfer's performance, where the results demonstrate its superiority', yet the manuscript supplies no quantitative results, baselines, hardware details, model sizes, decomposition methods, or specific metrics such as latency or throughput. This absence is load-bearing for the central empirical claim.
  2. [Experiments] Experimental evaluation: Without reported numbers, comparison systems, or ablation studies showing the contribution of each optimization, it is impossible to assess whether the optimizations deliver consistent gains or introduce hidden trade-offs in accuracy or compatibility.
minor comments (1)
  1. The description of the individual optimizations would be clearer if accompanied by pseudocode, architecture diagrams, or explicit compatibility statements with specific SOTA techniques (e.g., quantization or kernel fusion methods).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback. The comments highlight important gaps in how the empirical claims are presented. We address each major comment below and commit to a major revision that supplies the requested quantitative details, comparisons, and ablations while preserving the core technical contributions of DeInfer.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract asserts that 'extensive experiments are carried out to evaluate DeInfer's performance, where the results demonstrate its superiority', yet the manuscript supplies no quantitative results, baselines, hardware details, model sizes, decomposition methods, or specific metrics such as latency or throughput. This absence is load-bearing for the central empirical claim.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract is currently too high-level and does not contain the quantitative evidence needed to support its claims. In the revised manuscript we will rewrite the abstract to include concrete performance numbers (latency and throughput improvements), the specific models and decomposition methods evaluated, hardware configuration, and direct comparisons against relevant baselines. This change will make the central empirical claim verifiable directly from the abstract. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experimental evaluation: Without reported numbers, comparison systems, or ablation studies showing the contribution of each optimization, it is impossible to assess whether the optimizations deliver consistent gains or introduce hidden trade-offs in accuracy or compatibility.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the submitted manuscript does not yet present the numerical results, baseline comparisons, or ablation studies required for a full assessment. We will substantially expand the Experiments section to report: (1) concrete latency and throughput measurements on multiple model sizes and decomposition granularities, (2) comparisons against both standard inference engines and state-of-the-art optimizations, (3) ablation studies isolating the contribution of each DeInfer optimization, and (4) accuracy metrics confirming that the speed-ups do not degrade model quality or break compatibility with existing techniques. Hardware details, model configurations, and evaluation methodology will be fully specified. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical systems paper with no derivation chain

full rationale

The paper introduces DeInfer as an inference system with multiple optimizations for parallel execution of decomposed LLMs, evaluated through experiments showing superiority and compatibility with existing techniques. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citation load-bearing steps appear in the provided text or abstract. The central claims rest on implementation details and empirical results rather than any closed loop reducing outputs to inputs by construction, making the work self-contained as a standard descriptive systems contribution.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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No mathematical derivations, free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are present in the abstract; the contribution is a practical software system.

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