Hydra: Phase-Aware Workload Characterization of LLM Inference across Edge SoC Generations, Backends, and Quantization Levels

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Phase-aware edge LLM inference profiling framework

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2026-08-25

The framework targets Jetson edge SoCs rather than the reader's single 24 GB GPU or API-based setup, but its phase-aware timing and telemetry methodology is worth tracking as a reference for rigorous inference benchmarking should the reader need to justify backend or quantization choices empirically.

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   Hydra replaces ad hoc, aggregate-latency benchmarking of LLM inference with a common per-prompt timing schema that separates prefill and decode phases and fuses them with hardware telemetry (memory traffic, power, utilization) across HuggingFace Transformers and llama.cpp on NVIDIA Jetson SoCs. Adoption costs engineering effort to instrument serving code with its schema and telemetry collectors, plus maintenance as backends change; it yields measurement insight, not any direct latency, memory, or quality improvement. It can fail if its edge-SoC-specific findings are extrapolated to datacenter GPUs, if instrumentation overhead distorts short-generation workloads, or if the telemetry fusion is misconfigured, since the paper itself shows power and efficiency behavior is not monotonic across quantization levels or hardware generations.

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