Inference Auctions paper: serving highest bidders first without wrecking latency optimizations
nhaghtal · x · 2026-10-10
The author shares the paper link and continues: modern inference systems get low latency from KV-cache reuse and careful scheduling, so naively serving the highest bidders first would destroy those gains. Their Inference Auctions provably maximize welfare while keeping those system optimizations intact—letting users express true latency preferences via bidding instead of a handful of blunt priority tiers. See the preceding tweet in the thread for context.
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