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RDMA Point-to-Point Communication for LLM Systems research paper by Perplexity, 2025

Perplexity · Inference and efficiency · Oct 31, 2025 · 16 citations · 8 upvotes

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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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CitationsNov 9, 2026Influential citations rose from 3 to 4.
CitationsNov 9, 2026Citations rose from 13 to 16.
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CitationsSep 28, 2026A first count of 2 influential citations.
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