arXiv Machine Learning

Multi-Bin Batching for Increasing LLM Inference Throughput

arXiv:2412. 04504v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) grow in popularity for their diverse capabilities, improving the efficiency of their inference systems has become increasingly critical.

arXiv AI

Sep 23

From Inference Engine to Inference Control Plane: Connecting vLLM, llm-d, and the Evolution of Efficient Distributed LLM Serving

arXiv:2609.23130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference is evolving from an engine-local optimization problem into a distributed control problem involving reusable state,...

By Twinkll Sisodia

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arXiv AI

Jun 29

Ranking Before Serving: Low-Latency LLM Serving via Pairwise Learning-to-Rank

arXiv:2510. 03243v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient scheduling of large language model (LLM) inference tasks is critical for achieving low latency and high throughput, a challenge that is becoming increasingly acute with the rise of reasoning-capable LLMs whose generation lengths are highly variable.

By Yiheng Tao, Yihe Zhang, Matthew Dearing, Xin Wang, Yuping Fan, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

LLM Serving Optimization with Variable Prefill and Decode Lengths

arXiv:2508. 06133v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study offline scheduling for large language model (LLM) serving under a fixed KV-cache memory budget, where requests have heterogeneous prompt (prefill) and response (decode) lengths.

By Meixuan Wang, Yinyu Ye, Zijie Zhou

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Optimizing LLM Inference: Fluid-Guided Online Scheduling with Memory Constraints

arXiv:2504. 11320v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models now serve millions of users daily, with providers incurring costs exceeding $700,000 per day.

By Ruicheng Ao, Gan Luo, David Simchi-Levi, Xinshang Wang

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Threshold-Based Exclusive Batching for LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 00516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixed batching (MB)--interleaving prefill and decode in a single batch--has become the standard scheduling strategy for large language model (LLM) inference due to its efficiency in maximizing compute and memory utilization.

By Weifang Zhang, Yuzhou Nie, Bowen Pang, Guangrui Ma, Shining Wu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

BlendServe: Optimizing Offline Inference for Auto-regressive Large Models with Resource-aware Batching

arXiv:2411. 16102v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline batch inference, which leverages the flexibility of request batching to achieve higher throughput and lower costs, is becoming more popular for latency-insensitive applications.

By Yilong Zhao, Shuo Yang, Kan Zhu, Lianmin Zheng, Baris Kasikci, Yang Zhou, Jiarong Xing, Ion Stoica

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

Depth-adaptive Inference of Looped Language Models via Continuous Depth Batching

arXiv:2608. 09444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A main promise of looped language models (LMs) is depth-adaptive inference.

By Kristian Schwethelm, Daniel Rueckert, Georgios Kaissis

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Jul 7

DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation

arXiv:2607. 05147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by decoupling draft generation from target verification.

By Xin Cheng, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao, Jiashi Li, Yunfan Xiong, Yi Qian, Jiaqi Zhu, Shirong Ma, Xiaokang Zhang, Jiasheng Ye, Qinyu Chen, Chengqi Deng, Jiping Yu, Damai Dai, Zhengyan Zhang, Yixuan Wei, Yixuan Tan, Wenkai Yang, Runxin Xu, Yu Wu, Zhean Xu, Xuanyu Wang, Muyang Chen, Rui Tian, Xiao Bi, Zhewen Hao, Shaoyuan Chen, Huanqi Cao, Wentao Zhang, Anyi Xu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Wenfeng Liang

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arXiv AI

Aug 3

Predict-then-Diffuse: Adaptive Response Length for Compute-Budgeted Inference in Diffusion LLMs

arXiv:2605. 04215v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based Large Language Models (D-LLMs) represent a promising frontier in generative AI, offering fully parallel token generation that can lead to significant throughput advantages and superior GPU utilization over the traditional autoregressive paradigm.

By Michael Rottoli, Subhankar Roy, Stefano Paraboschi

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 18

Beyond Prediction: Tail-Aware Scheduling for LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 18431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM serving exhibits extreme length variability, making size-based scheduling difficult in practice.

By Yueying Li, Yuanfan Chen, Jiayang Chen, Esha Choukse, Haoran Qiu, G. Edward Suh, Rodrigo Fonseca, Ziv Scully, Udit Gupta

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 18

Beyond Binary Priorities: Multi-Tier SLA Scheduling for Large Language Model Serving

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.

By Anders Vestrum, Arya Raeesi, Hanna Roed

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 27

Scorpio: Serving Right Requests at the Right Time for Heterogeneous SLOs in LLM Inference

Scorpio is an LLM serving system that optimizes for heterogeneous Service Level Objectives (SLOs) such as Time to First Token (TTFT) and Time Per Output Token (TPOT). It uses adaptive scheduling across admission control, queue management, and batch selection, featuring a TTFT Guard that reorders requests by least-deadline-first and rejects unattainable ones, and a TPOT Guard that employs VBS-based admission control and a credit-based batching mechanism. Predictive modules support both guards, and evaluations show Scorpio can increase system goodput by up to 14.4× and improve SLO adherence by up to 46.5% under high load compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

By Yinghao Tang, Tingfeng Lan, Bo Pan, Xiuqi Huang, Hui Lu, Wei Chen

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