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Year 2026 · Volume 6 · Issue 5

Original Article

SUSHILA: Scalable Upstream Synthesis for Hybrid Inference in Large-model Acceleration

Milind K. Patil1
1 Syncaissa Systems Inc, USA.

Published Online: September-October 2026

Pages: 97-109

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