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Main Authors: Wilkins, Grant, Keshav, Srinivasan, Mortier, Richard
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04014
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  • The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) has led to significant advances in natural language processing and text generation. However, the energy consumed through LLM model inference remains a major challenge for sustainable AI deployment. To address this problem, we model the workload-dependent energy consumption and runtime of LLM inference tasks on heterogeneous GPU-CPU systems. By conducting an extensive characterization study of several state-of-the-art LLMs and analyzing their energy and runtime behavior across different magnitudes of input prompts and output text, we develop accurate (R^2>0.96) energy and runtime models for each LLM. We employ these models to explore an offline, energy-optimal LLM workload scheduling framework. Through a case study, we demonstrate the advantages of energy and accuracy aware scheduling compared to existing best practices.