Abstract:Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) requires exploring a large configuration space spanning parallelization strategies, batching techniques, and scheduling policies. Exhaustive measurement across this space is impractical, making latency prediction essential for system optimization. While NPUs have emerged as accelerators designed for LLM inference, no prediction methodology has been established for them. Specifically, applying prior work to LLM inference latency prediction on NPUs faces three challenges: undisclosed microarchitecture of commercial NPUs, unpredictable compiler optimizations, and latency non-linearity induced by bucketing.
We present LENS, a latency estimator that predicts NPU inference latency without information on the microarchitecture or compiler, and captures the non-linear latency induced by bucketing. LENS profiles each bucket with two end-to-end (E2E) measurements and composes the results to predict latency for arbitrary input-output length combinations. We validate LENS across NPUs from multiple vendors, several LLMs, and diverse workloads, achieving a mean prediction error of 2.15\%. We further compare LENS against two methodologically related baselines, confirming the validity of its approach.
From: Juhyun Park [view email]
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