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arxiv: 2605.23294 · v1 · pith:GB4PPGH4new · submitted 2026-05-22 · 💻 cs.AR

NASiC: 3D NAND-based CAM-Selected Multibit CIM Architecture for Efficient On-Device Mixture-of-Experts LLM Inference

Weikai Xu , Meng Li , Shuzhang Zhong , Tianyang Luo , Dongxue Zhao , Ling Liang , Zongwei Wang , Qianqian Huang
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keywords 3D NANDComputing-in-MemoryMixture-of-ExpertsContent Addressable MemoryLLM inferenceon-device AICAMCIM
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3D NAND architecture fuses expert selection and computation into one cycle for MoE LLM inference

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

The paper claims that a new architecture called NASiC solves the mismatch between 3D NAND computing-in-memory and the dynamic sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts models by using the built-in string structure of 3D NAND. It combines content-addressable memory masking for expert selection with multibit CIM computation so both happen inside a single cycle instead of separate steps. This removes wasted work on inactive experts and raises effective parallelism while still storing all expert weights on the high-density array. The authors report that the design, together with co-optimized multibit cells and block-wise signed arithmetic, produces 4-114.8 times higher performance and 3.9-70 times better energy efficiency than prior approaches while preserving model accuracy. If the claim holds, on-device deployment of large MoE models becomes practical because memory capacity and compute efficiency are no longer in conflict.

Core claim

By leveraging the intrinsic string structure of 3D NAND technology, NASiC fuses the dynamical expert selection through CAM-based masking mechanism and activated expert computation through CIM into a single computation cycle, eradicating redundant computation and enhancing computational parallelism, with circuit-level optimizations and multibit CIM cell co-design enabling block-wise parallel computation with in-situ signed multibit input and weight expansion.

What carries the argument

CAM-based masking mechanism integrated into the 3D NAND string structure that performs expert selection and CIM computation inside one cycle

If this is right

  • Inactive experts produce no array activity, removing the redundant work that normally lowers effective parallelism in sparse MoE execution.
  • All expert weights remain resident in the high-density 3D NAND array, eliminating the need to swap parameters on and off chip.
  • Multibit input and weight expansion occurs in place, raising utilization of each Flash cell without extra area.
  • Block-wise parallel operation scales throughput linearly with the number of active experts inside the same cycle budget.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same string-level masking trick could be tested on other sparse activation patterns such as dynamic pruning or conditional computation outside MoE.
  • If the single-cycle fusion holds at scale, end-to-end latency for on-device MoE chat or generation would drop because selection and execution no longer add separate pipeline stages.
  • The design choice to keep every expert in place might change how model developers trade off number of experts against total parameter count when targeting edge hardware.

Load-bearing premise

The circuit-level optimizations, multibit CIM cells, and CAM masking can be built into real 3D NAND hardware without large accuracy loss, area cost, or fabrication problems that erase the claimed speed and energy gains.

What would settle it

Fabricate a test chip of the NASiC array in 3D NAND and measure whether the single-cycle selection-plus-computation step delivers the reported performance and energy numbers at the stated accuracy level when compared with separate selection followed by computation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.23294 by Dongxue Zhao, Ling Liang, Meng Li, Qianqian Huang, Ru Huang, Shuzhang Zhong, Tianyang Luo, Weikai Xu, Yimao Cai, Zongwei Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) The scaling trend of large language models (LLMs) from dense models to Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. (b) Storage capacity comparison of memory technologies, identifying 3D NAND as the unique terabyte-level solution. 3D NAND uniquely offers the highest storage capacity, reaching the terabyte level by vertically stacking hundreds of layers with multi-level storage capacity per Flash cell, which is nec… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Conventional dense model with the feed-forward network (FFN) layer. (b) The standard MoE model. (c) The grouped MoE model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) Illustration of 3D NAND die. (b) Structure of 3D NAND plane. (c) Top￾down view of 3D NAND layer. (d) Threshold voltage (VTH) distributions for Flash cell. 2.2 3D NAND technology for CIM and MoE As mentioned above, the massive storage requirement of MoE mod￾els necessitates a memory technology that offers unparalleled den￾sity. Among the memory technologies, 3D NAND is the only mature and commercially a… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) Conventional 3D NAND CIM architecture. (b) The proposed 3D NAND-based content addressable memory (CAM)-selected CIM architecture. (c) The physical structure. (d) The 2-bit CAM cell design using multi-level cell (MLC) Flash cell. (e) The 1-bit CIM cell design. (f) Final computing results of the proposed CAM-selected CIM. threshold voltage (VTH) states from single-level cell (SLC) to multi￾level cell (ML… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Conventional 3D NAND CIM architecture with (a) contiguous expert map￾ping strategy or (b) interleaved expert mapping strategy. (c) Proposed NASiC architec￾ture with interleaved expert mapping strategy. (d) Finer-grained expansion. computation cycle (Figure 4b). Consequently, NASiC architecture eliminates the redundant computation and significantly improve the effective parallelism and energy efficiency for… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: (a) Conventional 3D NAND CIM circuit. (b) Proposed circuit-level optimiza￾tions. (c) The modified thermometer encoding scheme. (d) The in-situ multibit input expansion scheme. (e) The signed multiplication map and (f) computation results. multibit weights for block-wise parallel computation. We illustrate the encoding scheme using a standard 3D NAND plane where one GSL corresponds to four SSLs, where the m… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: (a) Conventional 3D NAND CIM with SLC Flash. (b) Proposed 3D NAND-based multibit CIM cell. (c) Encoding scheme with 3-state Flash cell. (d) Optimized timing diagram of computation. (e) The signed multiplication map and (f) computing results. (g-h) Encoding scheme with 4-state Flash cell. (i) The weight expansion. Table I: Configuration of 3D NAND plane. 3.3.2 Technique 3 (T3): 3D NAND-based multibit CIM ce… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: (a) Impact of CAM layers in T1 for area efficiency. (b) Evaluation of area efficiency and overall area-energy-delay product of NASiC architecture with T1∼T3. Table II: Comparison of proposed NASiC architecture with other designs. minimal area overhead. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: (a) Energy consumption breakdown of Base and NASiC architecture with three techniques. (b) Energy efficiency gain of NASiC architecture over Base. (Figure 7d) increases sub-linearly, thereby resulting in a dramatic boost to effective computational throughput (Figure 8d). 4.2.2 Energy efficiency. The evaluations of energy consumption and efficiency are carried out with 128 input dimension (𝜎 = 0.15), and th… view at source ↗
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The Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have emerged as the state-of-the-art paradigm for scaling up large language models (LLMs) without proportionally increased computational cost. However, its on-device deployment faces a critical challenge due to the large memory requirement for storing all expert parameters. 3D NAND-based computing-in-memory (CIM) architectures uniquely offer high storage capacity and reduced data movement, while they are ill-suited for MoE models with dynamically sparse expert activation, leading to a degradation of effective computational parallelism, along with underutilization of multibit storage capability of Flash cells. In this work, we proposed a 3D NAND-based content addressable-selected CIM architecture, dubbed as NASiC, which is tailored to MoE models. By leveraging the intrinsic string structure of 3D NAND technology, NASiC fuses the dynamical expert selection through CAM-based masking mechanism and activated expert computation through CIM into a single computation cycle, eradicating redundant computation and enhancing computational parallelism. Moreover, circuit-level optimizations and multibit CIM cell are co-designed with proposed NASiC architecture, featuring block-wise parallel computation with in-situ signed multibit input and weight expansion, substantially improving the throughput and energy-efficiency of NAND CIM array, as well as the utilization of high-density 3D NAND technology for MoE models. With extensive experimental results, we demonstrate NASiC achieves 4-114.8x improved performance and 3.9-70x improved energy efficiency over state-of-the-art designs, along with high accuracy, showing its great potential for efficient on-device MoE LLM inference.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes NASiC, a 3D NAND-based CAM-selected multibit CIM architecture for on-device MoE LLM inference. It exploits the intrinsic string structure of 3D NAND to fuse CAM-based dynamical expert selection (masking) and CIM-based expert computation into a single cycle, eliminating redundant operations and improving parallelism. Circuit-level co-design includes block-wise parallel signed multibit input/weight expansion. The authors report 4-114.8× performance and 3.9-70× energy-efficiency gains over state-of-the-art designs while preserving high accuracy.

Significance. If the central claims hold under realistic device conditions, the work could meaningfully advance efficient on-device deployment of large MoE models by addressing the mismatch between dynamic sparsity and standard NAND CIM utilization. The architecture-circuit-cell co-design for sparse activation and multibit Flash cells is a clear strength; the single-cycle fusion idea directly targets a known limitation in prior CIM designs for MoE workloads.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §5] Abstract and §5 (Experimental Results): The headline claims of 4-114.8× performance and 3.9-70× energy efficiency are load-bearing for the contribution, yet neither the abstract nor the results section specifies the exact SOTA baselines, the simulation framework (SPICE vs. architectural), accuracy metric definitions, or any Monte-Carlo/process-variation analysis. Without these, the reported gains cannot be assessed for robustness against the cell non-idealities that the architecture assumes away.
  2. [§3 and §4] §3 (Architecture) and §4 (Circuit Co-design): The single-cycle CAM-CIM fusion via 3D NAND strings is presented as eradicating redundant computation, but the description provides no timing diagram, critical-path analysis, or quantification of area/delay overhead from the added CAM masking transistors on the NAND string. Any non-zero overhead would directly undermine the parallelism and utilization claims that justify the large speed-up numbers.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The acronym NASiC is introduced without expansion.
  2. [§5] Figure captions and legends in §5 are occasionally missing units or baseline identifiers, reducing readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help strengthen the clarity and robustness of our claims. We will revise the manuscript to provide the requested details on baselines, simulation methodology, metrics, variation analysis, and circuit timing.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §5] Abstract and §5 (Experimental Results): The headline claims of 4-114.8× performance and 3.9-70× energy efficiency are load-bearing for the contribution, yet neither the abstract nor the results section specifies the exact SOTA baselines, the simulation framework (SPICE vs. architectural), accuracy metric definitions, or any Monte-Carlo/process-variation analysis. Without these, the reported gains cannot be assessed for robustness against the cell non-idealities that the architecture assumes away.

    Authors: We agree that explicit specification is required for independent assessment. In the revised manuscript we will (i) name the precise SOTA baselines in both the abstract and §5, (ii) state that all results derive from an architectural simulator whose timing and energy models are calibrated against SPICE simulations of the 3D NAND cells, (iii) define the accuracy metrics (perplexity on WikiText-103 and downstream task accuracy), and (iv) add Monte-Carlo results that incorporate measured cell-to-cell variation and process corners to quantify robustness of the reported speed-up and energy figures. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3 and §4] §3 (Architecture) and §4 (Circuit Co-design): The single-cycle CAM-CIM fusion via 3D NAND strings is presented as eradicating redundant computation, but the description provides no timing diagram, critical-path analysis, or quantification of area/delay overhead from the added CAM masking transistors on the NAND string. Any non-zero overhead would directly undermine the parallelism and utilization claims that justify the large speed-up numbers.

    Authors: The single-cycle property follows directly from the vertical string topology of 3D NAND: the CAM masking transistors sit on the same string as the CIM cells and are activated during the pre-charge phase that already occurs in every CIM cycle, so they do not lengthen the critical path. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the absence of supporting diagrams and quantification. The revision will add (i) a timing diagram showing the fused CAM-CIM sequence within one cycle, (ii) a critical-path breakdown confirming that the masking transistors lie off the read-current path, and (iii) area and delay numbers extracted from the same SPICE-calibrated models used for the performance results, demonstrating that the incremental overhead is negligible relative to the baseline NAND string. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper presents an architecture proposal for NASiC that fuses CAM-based expert selection and CIM computation via 3D NAND string structure, supported by circuit co-design and validated through experimental results showing performance and energy gains. No equations, self-definitional mappings, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the abstract or described claims. The performance assertions rest on external experimental benchmarks rather than reducing to the input assumptions by construction, rendering the derivation self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review provides no concrete free parameters, axioms, or invented entities. The design appears to rest on standard 3D NAND string properties and CIM principles without new postulated physical entities.

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