Learning the Cost of Reliable Inference
arXiv:2609.28322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarking and routing platforms increasingly act as intermediaries connecting large language model providers with end-users. However, providers on t...
The paper proposes an inference auction for large language model (LLM) APIs, enabling users to bid for faster service when compute demand exceeds capacity. The auction allocates priority efficiently without increasing latency, and includes fast algorithms for truthful bidding and an autobidding agent that adjusts bids within a user’s budget to maximize utility. Experiments show the auction improves system welfare while preserving the cache utilization and latency benefits of the SGLang inference framework.
arXiv:2609.28322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarking and routing platforms increasingly act as intermediaries connecting large language model providers with end-users. However, providers on t...
arXiv:2608. 06557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reasoning and agentic capabilities of large language models have expanded the range of applications they support, from short interactive exchanges to long, compute-heavy requests.
arXiv:2606. 03092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time scaling has emerged as a critical avenue for enhancing Large Language Models' performance, yet real-world deployment is constrained by strict computational budgets.
arXiv:2607. 09600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents requires effective orchestration of diverse expert models and tools.
arXiv:2604. 05845v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Auto-bidding services optimize real-time bidding strategies for advertisers under key performance indicator (KPI) constraints such as target return on investment and budget.
arXiv:2608. 03705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time bidding (RTB) ad exchanges typically forward nearly all incoming requests to demand-side platforms (DSPs), even though only a small fraction receive bids.
arXiv:2608. 11840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) inference services requires scalable infrastructure, yet centralized serving costs rise with demand.
arXiv:2608. 16336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern LLM serving deployments must simultaneously satisfy heterogeneous service-level objectives (SLOs) across a diverse population of user tiers, ranging from latency-critical API calls to background batch processing.
arXiv:2607. 03948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the online routing problem in large language model serving, where requests arrive sequentially and must be dispatched to parallel decode workers under tight batch-size and KV-cache constraints.
arXiv:2607. 18253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language query routers improve inference efficiency by assigning each query to a model that balances response quality and monetary cost.
arXiv:2607. 27265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time bidding is central to computational advertising, comprising three elements: Supply Side Platform (SSP) selling ad impressions, Demand Side Platform (DSP) bidding for advertisers, and Ad Exchange conducting auctions between them.
The paper demonstrates that in open‑weight LLM inference markets, selecting a model is insufficient; clients must also choose a provider, as the same model can differ markedly in quality, latency, availability, and price across providers. The authors propose a market‑aware routing approach, including a measured‑map policy and an online router called FACET, which certifies provider feasibility for each task and safely falls back to a reliable anchor. Experiments show that this strategy yields cost savings while maintaining quality and avoiding degraded endpoints.