Inference Engineering

LLM inference pipelines and serving infrastructure for low-latency, high-throughput generation. The current focus is continuous batching and KV-cache reuse — keeping GPUs saturated across concurrent requests instead of processing them one at a time.

Key findings

  • Continuous batching increased throughput substantially over static batching under mixed-length request loads.
  • KV-cache reuse across shared prompt prefixes cut redundant compute on multi-turn agent workloads.
  • Speculative decoding gains shrink fast once draft-model acceptance rate drops below a threshold.

Benchmark

Throughput, 7B model, single A100, mixed-length request batch
ApproachTokens/secP50 latencyΔ vs. baseline
Baseline (static batching)1,120410ms
Continuous batching1,740260ms+55%
Continuous batching + speculative decoding2,280190ms+104%

Screenshots

scheduler-timeline-before.png
Request scheduler timeline before continuous batching.
scheduler-timeline-after.png
Request scheduler timeline after continuous batching.

Attachment

inference-pipeline-optimization-notes.pdf PDF · full benchmark methodology & raw numbers
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