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arXiv cs.AI·

TRINE: A Token-Aware, Runtime-Adaptive FPGA Inference Engine for Multimodal AI

TRINE is an FPGA accelerator and compiler for end-to-end multimodal inference (ViT, CNN, GNN, transformers) without reconfiguration. It unifies layers as matrix operations, switches between systolic and SIMD architectures at runtime, and applies in-stream token pruning. On Alveo U50 and ZCU104, it achieves 22.57x latency reduction vs RTX 4090 while consuming 20-21 W.

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Reddit r/LocalLLaMA·

I bolted an 8-arm reasoning MoE onto a frozen 1.4B Mamba backbone on a single RTX 3060. Here’s the mechanistic autopsy of what broke and what worked.

A researcher built Mamba-Titan-1.4B-Reasoning (2.54B params MoE) on RTX 3060 by freezing a 1.4B Mamba-1 backbone and adding 8 trainable experts. Trained on DeepSeek CoT traces, the model developed a 'vault door' mechanism: the </think> token isolates at the smallest norm (1.991 vs 4.742 mean) to control latent reasoning termination.

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