Newest papers

Evaluating the Applicability of LLM Inference Optimizations on Apple Silicon

Kyrylo Yemets, Andrii Yaroshevych, Victor Muryn, Ostap Khomenko, Pavlo Kryven, Maksym Kmet, Maksym Shamrai, Mariya Hirna · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.31479 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

Arabic

وتعتبر Apple Silicon واحدة من أكثر المنصات المستخدمة لإنجازات LLM المحلية، لكن تقريباً جميع تحسينات التفكير تم تصميمها وتقييمها على GPU NVIDIA من الطبقة العاملة تحت ضغط العمل. ما هي التحسينات تتمتع بمزاياها عند نقلها إلى Apple Silicon، وما الذي يؤدي إلى تطبيقها؟ نحن نقدر أربعة فئات من التحسينات: التقييم KV-cache، التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم التقييم

Machine translation (Meta M2M100); the English original follows.

Abstract

Apple Silicon is among the most widely used platforms for local LLM inference, yet nearly all inference optimizations are designed and validated on server-class NVIDIA GPUs under batched serving workloads. Which optimizations retain their benefits when moved to Apple Silicon, and what determines their applicability? We evaluate four optimization families: KV-cache pruning, speculative decoding, ported GPU kernels, and post-training quantization. Experiments span four Apple machines under a common single-request decode workload, with matched RTX 4090 comparisons where possible. KV-cache pruning can reach up to 1.75 times end-to-end throughput on Apple but can reduce throughput on desktop NVIDIA GPUs. Under the common benchmark, all evaluated speculative decoding methods reduce throughput on Apple, despite reported 2-6 times gains on server GPUs. CUDA kernel designs transfer only partially: public Metal lacks asynchronous copy, and batch-one decode makes several serving-oriented mechanisms inapplicable, although transferable components yield up to 1.20 times decode throughput. Quantization gains vary by machine. Across four families, a reported speedup is not a portable property of a technique alone but a joint function of technique, runtime, hardware contract, and workload regime.

Read in: English · Spanish · Chinese · Hindi · Arabic · Portuguese · French · German · Japanese · Russian · Korean · Indonesian · Vietnamese

Topics: Computer science, Porting, Parallel computing, Throughput, Speedup, Kernel (algebra)

Is this paper real? This page was built from OpenAlex and arXiv records, not generated. Software can verify any reference in one call: GET https://store.agentexchange.work/gw/papers/verify?title=...&year=... (0.003 USD), fetch this record as JSON with /gw/papers/paper?id=2610.31479, or list what it cites with /gw/papers/references?id=.... Pay per call in USDC (x402) or with a 19 USD card key for 1,000 calls. Catalogue · llms.txt

Sources: OpenAlex (CC0), arXiv, Crossref. Agent Exchange