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The efficient frontier of LLM inference

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Running large AI models efficiently requires balancing speed, cost, and quality. Engineers use two approaches: techniques that trade one factor for another, like adjusting batch sizes or parallelism strategies, and techniques that improve overall performance, like kernel optimization and speculative decoding, benefiting speed and cost simultaneously.

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