Focus Session: Hardware and Software Techniques for Accelerating Multimodal Foundation Models

arXiv:2604.21952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work presents a multi-layered methodology for efficiently accelerating multimodal foundation models (MFMs). It combines hardware and software co-design of transformer blocks with an optimization pipeline that reduces computational and memory requirements. During model development, it employs performance enhancements through fine-tuning for domain-specific adaptation. Our methodology further incorporates hardware and software techniques for o