Lehan Pan

Yu Han, Lehan Pan, Jie Peng et al.

Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) enables scalable parameter growth in large language models (LLMs) by selectively activating a subset of experts, and its large parameter count necessitates distributed deployment for inference. However, distributed inference faces a critical dilemma: although communication overhead constitutes the primary bottleneck, reducing it often exacerbates computational load imbalance, leading to resource waste. In this paper, we present GRACE-MoE, which stands for Grouping and Replication with Locality-Aware Routing for SMoE inference. GRACE-MoE is a lossless co-optimization framework that integrates expert grouping to reduce communication and dynamic replication to correct load skew, together with locality-aware routing to resolve replica selection. To underpin this coordinated optimization in multi-node settings, GRACE-MoE adopts a hierarchical sparse communication design that reduces cross-node traffic while implicitly aligning execution across nodes, thereby mitigating synchronization overhead. Experiments on diverse models and multi-node, multi-GPU environments demonstrate that GRACE-MoE efficiently reduces end-to-end inference latency, achieving up to 4.66x speedup over existing systems, and the code will be released upon acceptance.

Lehan Pan, Ziyang Tao, Ruoyu Pang et al.

Tree-based speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by verifying multiple draft candidates in parallel, but this advantage weakens for sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. As the draft tree grows, different branches activate different experts, expanding the union of activated experts and substantially increasing target-side verification cost. We propose EVICT, a training-free, hyperparameter-free, and lossless adaptive verification method for MoE speculative decoding. EVICT makes every verified token count by truncating the draft tree before target verification and retaining only the cost-effective prefix. It leverages fine-grained drafter signals to estimate candidate benefit, combines them with offline-profiled verification cost, and remains highly compatible with the high-performance graph-based serving framework SGLang. Extensive experiments on diverse MoE backbones and benchmarks show that EVICT achieves up to 2.35x speedup over autoregressive decoding and an average 1.21x speedup over the state-of-the-art baseline EAGLE-3, while significantly reducing unnecessary expert activations during verification.

Shumin Wang, Zhuoran Yang, Lidian Wang et al.

The significant achievements of pre-trained models leveraging large volumes of data in the field of NLP and 2D vision inspire us to explore the potential of extensive data pre-training for 3D perception in autonomous driving. Toward this goal, this paper proposes to utilize massive unlabeled data from heterogeneous datasets to pre-train 3D perception models. We introduce a self-supervised pre-training framework that learns effective 3D representations from scratch on unlabeled data, combined with a prompt adapter based domain adaptation strategy to reduce dataset bias. The approach significantly improves model performance on downstream tasks such as 3D object detection, BEV segmentation, 3D object tracking, and occupancy prediction, and shows steady performance increase as the training data volume scales up, demonstrating the potential of continually benefit 3D perception models for autonomous driving. We will release the source code to inspire further investigations in the community.