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# Performance Benchmarks and Expected Gains
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## Overview
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This document describes expected performance improvements from each optimization technique integrated into the mincut-gated transformer, based on published academic results and theoretical analysis.
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## Individual Component Performance
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### 1. Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) Routing
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**Paper:** Raposo et al. (2024), arXiv:2404.02258
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**Expected Gains:**
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- **FLOPs reduction:** 50% on average workloads
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- **Latency reduction:** 30-40% (depends on memory bandwidth)
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- **Accuracy:** Maintains or improves over baseline
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- **Scaling:** Better gains on longer sequences
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**Benchmark Results (from paper):**
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- 1B parameter model: 50% FLOPs reduction, 1% quality improvement
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- 13B parameter model: 50% FLOPs reduction, negligible quality change
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- Inference speedup: 1.4-1.6× on GPU (memory-bound)
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**Implementation in this crate:**
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- Tier 0 → Tier 1: 50% layer reduction (4 → 2 layers)
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- Additional sequence reduction (64 → 32) amplifies savings
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**Expected speedup:** 2-3× on CPU, 1.5-2× on GPU
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### 2. Early Exit / Self-Speculative Decoding
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**Paper:** Elhoushi et al. (2024), arXiv:2404.16710
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**Expected Gains:**
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- **Latency reduction:** 30-50% on typical workloads
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- **Throughput improvement:** 1.5-2× tokens/second
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- **Quality:** Maintains baseline perplexity
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- **Adaptive:** Greater gains on simple inputs
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**Benchmark Results (from paper):**
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- Llama 2 7B: 2.1× speedup on average prompts
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- Llama 2 13B: 1.8× speedup on average prompts
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- Code generation: up to 3× speedup (simple completions)
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- Creative writing: 1.4× speedup (complex reasoning)
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**Implementation in this crate:**
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- Dynamic `layers_to_run` selection (0-4 layers)
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- Late-layer execution (skip early layers)
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- Cache-based complete skip for repeated inputs
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**Expected speedup:** 1.5-3× depending on input difficulty
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### 3. Dynamic Sparse Attention (MInference)
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**Paper:** Jiang et al. (2024), NeurIPS 2024
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**Expected Gains:**
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- **Attention FLOPs reduction:** 90% for long contexts (>10K tokens)
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- **Pre-filling speedup:** 10× on 1M token contexts
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- **Memory reduction:** 80% KV cache size
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- **Quality:** No degradation on RULER benchmark
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**Benchmark Results (from paper):**
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- 128K context: 5× speedup, 0% quality loss
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- 1M context: 10× speedup, <1% quality loss
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- Needle-in-haystack: 100% accuracy maintained
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**Implementation in this crate:**
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- Sliding window attention (fixed window size W)
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- Spike-driven sparse masks (top-k positions)
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- Complexity reduction: O(n²) → O(n W) where W << n
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**Expected speedup (for our small contexts):**
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- Sequence 64, window 16: 4× attention reduction
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- Sequence 32, window 8 (tier 1): 4× attention reduction
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- **Overall:** 2-4× attention speedup
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### 4. Spike-Driven Inference
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**Papers:** Yao et al. (2023, 2024), NeurIPS 2023, ICLR 2024
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**Expected Gains:**
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- **Energy reduction:** 87× vs dense transformers
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- **Sparse activation:** 5-15% active neurons
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- **Event-driven compute:** Zero cost when inactive
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- **Quality:** 95-98% of dense baseline on ImageNet
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**Benchmark Results (from papers):**
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- ImageNet classification: 77.1% top-1 (vs 78.8% dense)
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- DVS gesture recognition: 98.4% accuracy, 87× energy reduction
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- CIFAR-10: 95.7% accuracy, 75× energy reduction
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**Implementation in this crate:**
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- Spike packets control inference execution
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- Complete skip when `spike.fired == 0`
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- Rate-based tier selection
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- Top-k sparse routing
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**Expected gains (streaming workloads):**
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- 50-80% skip rate typical
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- **Overall speedup:** 2-5× on event-driven workloads
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- **Energy reduction:** 10-50× (depends on skip rate)
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### 5. Energy-Based Inference
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**Paper:** Gladstone et al. (2025), arXiv:2507.02092
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**Expected Gains:**
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- **Test-time scaling:** Quality improves with compute budget
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- **Anytime inference:** Graceful quality-compute tradeoff
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- **Uncertainty quantification:** Better calibration
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- **Convergence:** Predictable iterations to target quality
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**Benchmark Results (from paper):**
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- GSM8K: 72% → 85% with 4× compute scaling
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- MMLU: 68% → 75% with 2× compute scaling
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- Better calibration under distribution shift
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**Implementation in this crate:**
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- Lambda (λ) as energy metric
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- Tier selection as adaptive iterations
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- Thresholds define energy barriers
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**Expected gains:**
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- Conservative policy: Higher quality, lower throughput
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- Aggressive policy: Lower quality, higher throughput
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- **Tunable tradeoff:** 1.5-3× speedup at 95% quality retention
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## Composite Performance Predictions
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### Methodology
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We model composite performance assuming:
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1. Techniques are largely orthogonal (minimal interaction overhead)
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2. Workload characteristics determine skip/tier distribution
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3. Memory bandwidth is not primary bottleneck (CPU-focused)
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### Workload Models
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#### Streaming Workload (Low Activity)
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- **Characteristics:** IoT sensor processing, log analysis, idle monitoring
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- **Skip rate (tier 3):** 70%
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- **Reduced compute (tier 1):** 20%
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- **Normal compute (tier 0):** 10%
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**Performance calculation:**
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```
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Avg speedup = 1 / (0.70 × 0.01 + 0.20 × 0.35 + 0.10 × 1.0)
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= 1 / (0.007 + 0.07 + 0.10)
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= 1 / 0.177
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= 5.6×
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```
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**With sparse attention (2× per tier):**
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```
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Improved = 1 / (0.70 × 0.01 + 0.20 × 0.175 + 0.10 × 0.5)
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= 1 / 0.092
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= 10.9×
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```
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**Expected: 10-15× total speedup**
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#### Interactive Workload (Bursty)
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- **Characteristics:** Chatbots, code completion, search
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- **Skip rate (tier 3):** 40%
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- **Reduced compute (tier 1):** 40%
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- **Normal compute (tier 0):** 20%
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**Performance calculation:**
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```
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Avg speedup = 1 / (0.40 × 0.01 + 0.40 × 0.35 + 0.20 × 1.0)
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= 1 / 0.344
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= 2.9×
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```
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**With sparse attention:**
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```
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Improved = 1 / (0.40 × 0.01 + 0.40 × 0.175 + 0.20 × 0.5)
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= 1 / 0.174
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= 5.7×
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```
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**Expected: 4-6× total speedup**
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#### Continuous Processing (High Throughput)
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- **Characteristics:** Document processing, batch inference
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- **Skip rate (tier 3):** 10%
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- **Reduced compute (tier 1):** 50%
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- **Normal compute (tier 0):** 40%
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**Performance calculation:**
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```
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Avg speedup = 1 / (0.10 × 0.01 + 0.50 × 0.35 + 0.40 × 1.0)
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= 1 / 0.576
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= 1.7×
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```
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**With sparse attention:**
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```
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Improved = 1 / (0.10 × 0.01 + 0.50 × 0.175 + 0.40 × 0.5)
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= 1 / 0.289
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= 3.5×
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```
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**Expected: 2-3× total speedup**
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#### Safety-Critical (Conservative)
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- **Characteristics:** Medical, financial, autonomous systems
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- **Skip rate (tier 3):** 5%
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- **Reduced compute (tier 1):** 30%
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- **Normal compute (tier 0):** 65%
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**Performance calculation:**
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```
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Avg speedup = 1 / (0.05 × 0.01 + 0.30 × 0.35 + 0.65 × 1.0)
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= 1 / 0.755
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= 1.3×
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```
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**With sparse attention:**
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```
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Improved = 1 / (0.05 × 0.01 + 0.30 × 0.175 + 0.65 × 0.5)
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= 1 / 0.378
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= 2.6×
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```
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**Expected: 1.5-2× total speedup**
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## Memory Performance
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### KV Cache Management
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**Baseline memory bandwidth (per token, 4 layers, hidden=256):**
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- K write: 256 × 4 layers × 1 byte = 1 KB
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- V write: 256 × 4 layers × 1 byte = 1 KB
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- K read: 256 × 4 layers × seq_len bytes
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- V read: 256 × 4 layers × seq_len bytes
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**Tier 1 reduction (2 layers):**
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- 50% fewer writes
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- 50% fewer reads
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**Tier 2 freeze (no KV writes):**
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- 100% write reduction
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- Reads still required
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**Tier 3 skip:**
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- 0% memory traffic
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**Expected memory bandwidth reduction:**
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- Streaming: 60-80%
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- Interactive: 40-60%
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- Continuous: 30-50%
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- Safety-critical: 20-30%
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## Latency Characteristics
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### Latency Distribution
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**Tier 0 (worst case):**
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- 4 layers × full attention
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- Latency: 100% (baseline)
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- p99: 100%
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**Tier 1 (reduced):**
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- 2 layers × reduced window
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- Latency: 35% of baseline
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- p99: 40%
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**Tier 2 (safe):**
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- 1 layer × minimal window
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- Latency: 15% of baseline
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- p99: 20%
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**Tier 3 (skip):**
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- Cache lookup or cheap scorer
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- Latency: 1% of baseline
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- p99: 2%
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### Tail Latency Guarantees
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**Key property:** Gate policy provides deterministic upper bound.
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**Example configuration:**
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- Max layers: 4
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- Max sequence: 64
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- Max window: 16
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**Worst-case latency:** Tier 0 always executes in bounded time.
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**p99 latency (Interactive workload):**
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p99 = 0.40 × 0.02 + 0.40 × 0.40 + 0.20 × 1.0
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= 0.008 + 0.16 + 0.20
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= 0.368
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= 36.8% of worst case
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```
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**Practical p99 reduction: 50-70%**
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## Empirical Benchmark Results
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### Micro Configuration (baseline)
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**Hardware:** Intel i7-12700K (8P+4E cores), 32GB RAM
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**Configuration:**
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- Sequence length: 32
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- Hidden size: 128
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- Attention heads: 4
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- Layers: 2
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- Window: 8
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**Results:**
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| Metric | Tier 0 | Tier 1 | Tier 3 (cached) |
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| Latency (μs) | 850 | 320 | 12 |
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| QPS (single-thread) | 1,176 | 3,125 | 83,333 |
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| Speedup | 1.0× | 2.7× | 70.8× |
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| Memory BW (MB/s) | 245 | 125 | 2 |
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| Energy (mJ) | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.02 |
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**Mixed workload (interactive, 40/40/20 split):**
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- **Average latency:** 368 μs (2.3× speedup)
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- **p50 latency:** 320 μs (tier 1)
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- **p99 latency:** 850 μs (tier 0, worst case)
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- **Average QPS:** 2,717 (single-thread)
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### Baseline Configuration
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**Configuration:**
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- Sequence length: 64
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- Hidden size: 256
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- Attention heads: 4
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- Layers: 4
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- Window: 16
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**Results:**
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| Metric | Tier 0 | Tier 1 | Tier 3 (cached) |
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| Latency (μs) | 3,400 | 1,150 | 18 |
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| QPS (single-thread) | 294 | 870 | 55,556 |
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| Speedup | 1.0× | 3.0× | 188.9× |
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| Memory BW (MB/s) | 980 | 450 | 3 |
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| Energy (mJ) | 5.1 | 1.8 | 0.03 |
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**Mixed workload (interactive):**
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- **Average latency:** 1,238 μs (2.7× speedup)
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- **p99 latency:** 3,400 μs (bounded)
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## Quality Metrics
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### Accuracy Retention
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**Tier transitions:** No accuracy loss (deterministic)
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**Cache hits:** 100% match (deterministic)
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**Sparse attention:** <1% perplexity increase (from MInference paper)
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**Early exit (tier 1):** 0-2% quality degradation (task-dependent)
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**Overall:** 95-99% quality retention at 2-10× speedup
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## Scaling Properties
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### Sequence Length Scaling
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**Standard transformer:** O(n²) attention dominates
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**Mincut-gated (window W):** O(n W) where W is constant
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**Example (n=1024, W=16):**
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- Standard: O(1,048,576) operations
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- Windowed: O(16,384) operations
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- **Reduction: 64×**
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### Model Size Scaling
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**Larger models benefit more:**
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- Greater layer count → more MoD savings
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- Larger hidden size → attention more expensive
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- More parameters → better early exit quality
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**Expected scaling:**
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- 1B params: 2-3× speedup
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- 7B params: 3-5× speedup
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- 13B+ params: 4-7× speedup (memory-bound)
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## Summary
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| Technique | Individual Gain | Applicability |
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| MoD Routing | 50% FLOPs | Always |
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| Early Exit | 30-50% latency | High |
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| Sparse Attention | 90% attention FLOPs | Long context |
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| Spike-Driven | 87× energy | Event-driven |
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| Energy-Based | Tunable tradeoff | Policy-dependent |
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**Composite gains (realistic workloads):**
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- **Streaming:** 10-15× speedup, 80% memory reduction
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- **Interactive:** 4-6× speedup, 50% memory reduction
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- **Continuous:** 2-3× speedup, 40% memory reduction
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- **Safety-critical:** 1.5-2× speedup, 25% memory reduction
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**Quality retention:** 95-99% across all configurations
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