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ATEST: Adaptive Resource-Aware Test-Time Scaling for Efficient LLM Inference

ATEST is a resource-aware test-time scaling framework that adapts large language model sampling based on query difficulty and GPU load, improving energy efficiency. It addresses the rising energy cost of inference under GPU contention by optimizing the number of samples dynamically.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-18T20:23:11+00:00 Detected 2026-10-20T09:22:34+00:00
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ATEST is a resource-aware test-time scaling framework that adapts large language model sampling based on query difficulty and GPU load, improving energy efficiency. It addresses the rising energy cost of inference under GPU contention by optimizing the number of samples dynamically.

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Test-time scaling (TTS) improves large language model (LLM) reasoning by sampling multiple answers, but fixed sampling budgets ignore both query difficulty and the changing energy cost of inference under GPU contention. We measure up to a 4.1-fold increase in energy for the same four-sample query as GPU load...

By considering both query complexity and real-time GPU resource availability, ATEST can reduce unnecessary energy consumption during LLM inference. This approach enables more efficient use of computational resources while maintaining reasoning quality.

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