AI Flow: Perspectives, Scenarios, and Approaches

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12479v2
• Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:11:34 GMT
• Title: AI Flow: Perspectives, Scenarios, and Approaches
• Authors: Hongjun An, Wenhan Hu, Sida Huang, Siqi Huang, Ruanjun Li, Yuanzhi Liang, Jiawei Shao, Yiliang Song, Zihan Wang, Cheng Yuan, Chi Zhang, Hongyuan Zhang, Wenhao Zhuang, Xuelong Li,
• Abstract summary: We introduce AI Flow, a framework that integrates cutting-edge IT and CT advancements.<n>First, device-edge-cloud framework serves as the foundation, which integrates end devices, edge servers, and cloud clusters.<n>Second, we introduce the concept of familial models, which refers to a series of different-sized models with aligned hidden features.<n>Third, connectivity- and interaction-based intelligence emergence is a novel paradigm of AI Flow.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Pioneered by the foundational information theory by Claude Shannon and the visionary framework of machine intelligence by Alan Turing, the convergent evolution of information and communication technologies (IT/CT) has created an unbroken wave of connectivity and computation. This synergy has sparked a technological revolution, now reaching its peak with large artificial intelligence (AI) models that are reshaping industries and redefining human-machine collaboration. However, the realization of ubiquitous intelligence faces considerable challenges due to substantial resource consumption in large models and high communication bandwidth demands. To address these challenges, AI Flow has been introduced as a multidisciplinary framework that integrates cutting-edge IT and CT advancements, with a particular emphasis on the following three key points. First, device-edge-cloud framework serves as the foundation, which integrates end devices, edge servers, and cloud clusters to optimize scalability and efficiency for low-latency model inference. Second, we introduce the concept of familial models, which refers to a series of different-sized models with aligned hidden features, enabling effective collaboration and the flexibility to adapt to varying resource constraints and dynamic scenarios. Third, connectivity- and interaction-based intelligence emergence is a novel paradigm of AI Flow. By leveraging communication networks to enhance connectivity, the collaboration among AI models across heterogeneous nodes achieves emergent intelligence that surpasses the capability of any single model. The innovations of AI Flow provide enhanced intelligence, timely responsiveness, and ubiquitous accessibility to AI services, paving the way for the tighter fusion of AI techniques and communication systems.

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