Zhihao Yan

2papers

2 Papers

61.2CVMay 28
CityGen: Structure-Guided City-Style Synthesis for Cross-City Autonomous Driving

Zezhong Qian, Zhao Yang, Lu Tan et al.

Autonomous driving systems are commonly trained and evaluated within limited geographic regions, which hinders their scalability when deployed in new cities. However, significant domain shifts in appearance, road topology, and traffic patterns often cause severe performance degradation under cross-city deployment. Existing approaches based on domain adaptation, data augmentation, or synthetic data generation typically rely on labeled target data, city-specific annotations, or task-specific designs, limiting their scalability and effectiveness for holistic evaluation. In this paper, we introduce CityTransfer-Bench, a geographically disjoint benchmark for evaluating cross-city generalization across perception, segmentation, and planning, and propose CityGen, a diffusion-based generative framework that performs zero-label city adaptation via HD-map-conditioned synthesis guided by city-level visual prompts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CityGen consistently improves cross-city robustness across multiple tasks, establishing a scalable and label-efficient foundation for generalizable autonomous driving.

25.9ARApr 28
NVLLM: A 3D NAND-Centric Architecture Enabling Edge on-Device LLM Inference

Mingbo Hao, Changwei Yan, Haoyu Cui et al.

The rapid growth of LLMs demands high-throughput, memory-capacity-intensive inference on resource-constrained edge devices, where single-batch decoding remains fundamentally memory-bound. Existing out-of-core GPU-based and SSD-like accelerators are limited by DRAM-bound weight movement and inefficient storage access granularity. We present NVLLM, a 3D NAND-centric inference architecture that offloads feed-forward network (FFN) computation into the Flash while executing attention on lightweight CMOS logic with external DRAM. Through wafer-to-wafer stacking, NVLLM tightly integrates multi-plane 3D NAND with compute pipelines, error correction code (ECC) units, and buffers, enabling page-level FFN weight access without DRAM traversal. All GEMM/GEMV operations are decomposed into dot-product primitives executed by out-of-order PE lanes, operating directly on raw NAND reads with integrated ECC. Attention weights remain in DRAM, and a KV-cache-aware scheduler sustains throughput as the context length grows. Evaluated on OPT and LLaMA models with up to 30B parameters, NVLLM achieves a 16.7$\times$--37.9$\times$ speedup over A800-based out-of-core inference and up to 4.7$\times$ speedup over SSD-like designs, with only 2.7\% CMOS area overhead.