Papersby GlyphFreeToken: Efficient Edge-Native MoE Serving with Bandwidth-Adaptive Execution research paper by UC Berkeley, 2026
UC Berkeley · Inference and efficiency · Aug 17, 2026 · 8 citations · 86 upvotes · unverified
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FreeToken is an edge-native Mixture-of-Experts serving system that dynamically maps computation and model state onto heterogeneous local hardware to run large open-weight models on personal machines.
By Shuo Yang, Xiaoze Fan, Melissa Pan and 8 more · arXiv 2608.16157 · PDF · Code
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- 8, 3 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 86 · Hugging Face
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- UC Berkeley
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