A Measurement Study of LLM Inference Trade-offs Across Edge Continuum Hardware

arXiv:2609.08307 · cs.DC, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.DC, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

Comments: Accepted for publication at WIMS 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

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