The efficient frontier of LLM inference

The article explains the concept of "efficient frontier" in LLM inference, which describes tradeoffs between latency and throughput (cost). Inference techniques fall into two categories: those that move deployments along an existing frontier by making tradeoffs (such as batch sizing), and those that push the entire frontier outward to create overall efficiency gains. Understanding which techniques achieve each outcome helps engineers optimize LLM deployments for their specific production requirements.