Inference Auctions Provably Maximize Welfare Without Sacrificing KV-Cache Gains

nhaghtal · x · 2026-10-10

Part 3 of the Inference Auctions thread addresses the obvious objection: modern serving relies on KV-cache reuse and carefully optimized scheduling, and naively serving highest bidders first could destroy those latency gains. The paper claims its auctions provably maximize welfare without giving up these system optimizations or affecting latency.

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