RDMA Point-to-Point Communication for LLM Systems research paper by Perplexity, 2025
Perplexity · Inference and efficiency · Oct 31, 2025 · 16 citations · 8 upvotes
What it shows
TransferEngine provides a uniform interface for flexible point-to-point communication in large language models, supporting disaggregated inference, reinforcement learning, and Mixture-of-Experts routing across different hardware.
By Nandor Licker, Kevin Hu, Vladimir Zaytsev and 1 more · arXiv 2510.27656 · PDF · Code
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