LGMar 26Code
Intern-S1-Pro: Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model at Trillion ScaleYicheng Zou, Dongsheng Zhu, Lin Zhu et al.
We introduce Intern-S1-Pro, the first one-trillion-parameter scientific multimodal foundation model. Scaling to this unprecedented size, the model delivers a comprehensive enhancement across both general and scientific domains. Beyond stronger reasoning and image-text understanding capabilities, its intelligence is augmented with advanced agent capabilities. Simultaneously, its scientific expertise has been vastly expanded to master over 100 specialized tasks across critical science fields, including chemistry, materials, life sciences, and earth sciences. Achieving this massive scale is made possible by the robust infrastructure support of XTuner and LMDeploy, which facilitates highly efficient Reinforcement Learning (RL) training at the 1-trillion parameter level while ensuring strict precision consistency between training and inference. By seamlessly integrating these advancements, Intern-S1-Pro further fortifies the fusion of general and specialized intelligence, working as a Specializable Generalist, demonstrating its position in the top tier of open-source models for general capabilities, while outperforming proprietary models in the depth of specialized scientific tasks.
DCMay 15Code
LMDeploy Accelerates Mixed-Precision LLM Inference with TurboMindLi Zhang, Youhe Jiang, Guoliang He et al.
Mixed-precision inference techniques reduce the memory and computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) by applying hybrid precision formats to model weights, activations, and KV caches. However, existing systems struggle to (i) automatically generalize across diverse hardware architectures and precision formats, often requiring fragmented, hand-tuned kernels, and (ii) fully exploit available memory and compute resources, often causing performance bottlenecks. To address these problems, we propose TurboMind, a generalizable and efficient mixed-precision LLM inference engine of LMDeploy. TurboMind is built around two hardware-aware mixed-precision pipelines: A General Matrix Multiply (GEMM) pipeline that optimizes matrix operations through offline weight packing and online acceleration, and an attention pipeline that enables efficient attention computation with different Query, Key, and Value precision combinations. These pipelines are enabled by four key techniques: (i) Hardware-aware weight packing and (ii) adaptive head alignment for generalizability, and (iii) instruction-level parallelism and (iv) a KV memory loading pipeline for efficiency. We conduct comprehensive evaluations of LMDeploy powered by TurboMind across sixteen popular LLMs and four representative GPU architectures. Results demonstrate that LMDeploy achieves up to 61% lower serving latency (30% on average) and up to 156% higher throughput (58% on average) in mixed-precision workloads compared to existing mixed-precision frameworks, establishing consistent performance improvements across all tested configurations and hardware types. This work is open-sourced and publicly available at https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy.
LGOct 7, 2025
SDAR: A Synergistic Diffusion-AutoRegression Paradigm for Scalable Sequence GenerationShuang Cheng, Yihan Bian, Dawei Liu et al.
We propose SDAR, a Synergistic Diffusion-Autoregression paradigm that unifies the training efficiency of autoregressive models with the parallel inference capability of diffusion. Instead of costly end-to-end diffusion training, SDAR performs a lightweight paradigm conversion that transforms a well-trained autoregressive (AR) model into a blockwise diffusion model through brief, data-efficient adaptation. During inference, SDAR generates sequences autoregressively across blocks for global coherence while decoding all tokens within each block in parallel via a discrete diffusion process. Extensive experiments show that AR models remain substantially more compute-efficient than masked diffusion models, providing a strong foundation for adaptation. Building on this insight, SDAR achieves efficient AR-to-diffusion conversion with minimal cost, preserving AR-level performance while enabling parallel generation. Scaling studies across dense and Mixture-of-Experts architectures confirm that SDAR scales without compromise: larger models exhibit stronger robustness to block size and decoding thresholds, yielding greater speedups without accuracy loss. Beyond efficiency, SDAR demonstrates enhanced reasoning and domain adaptability. Our 30B MoE model surpasses its AR counterpart on challenging scientific reasoning benchmarks such as GPQA and ChemBench, and gains further improvements under test-time scaling methods like majority voting and pass@k. Together, these results establish SDAR as a practical paradigm that combines the strengths of autoregression and diffusion for scalable, high-throughput reasoning.