Optimizing Large Language Model Inference Performance with Custom CUDA Kernels and Distributed Systems
Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT‑3, LLaMA, and PaLM have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities across natural‑language processing tasks. However, their size—often ranging from hundreds of millions to hundreds of billions of parameters—poses a formidable challenge when serving them in production. Inference latency, memory consumption, and throughput become critical bottlenecks, especially for real‑time applications like chat assistants, code generation, or recommendation engines. Two complementary strategies have emerged to address these challenges: ...