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arxiv: 2605.24832 · v1 · pith:KPC2PYCKnew · submitted 2026-05-24 · 💻 cs.DC

Optimus: Elastic Decoding for Efficient Diffusion LLM Serving

Chiyue Wei , Cong Guo , Bowen Duan , Junyao Zhang , Haoxuan Shan , Yifei Wang , Yangjie Zhou , Hai "Helen" Li
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keywords diffusion llmelastic decodingllm servingchunked decodingsaturation-aware schedulinggpu utilizationthroughput optimization
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Optimus makes diffusion LLM decoding block size a runtime variable that a closed-loop scheduler adjusts to current load, sustaining high throughput without model retraining.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Fixed-block diffusion decoding wastes GPU cycles under light load and performs extra redundant work under heavy load because one block size cannot suit both regimes. Optimus splits generation into smaller executable chunks and lets a scheduler pick the chunk size at each step based on measured saturation. The combination keeps hardware busy while limiting wasted tokens. Experiments report the resulting throughput stays high across load changes and exceeds both autoregressive baselines and static diffusion baselines.

Core claim

Optimus enables elastic decoding for diffusion LLMs by combining chunked decoding, which permits fine-grained execution steps without retraining, with saturation-aware scheduling that selects chunk sizes from runtime observations. This treats decoding granularity as a controllable variable that trades off GPU utilization against token efficiency, yielding up to 6.1x higher throughput than autoregressive decoding and 4.3x higher than fixed-block diffusion while preserving output accuracy.

What carries the argument

Chunked decoding with saturation-aware closed-loop scheduling that selects decoding granularity at runtime to balance utilization and redundant computation.

If this is right

  • Throughput improves by up to 6.1 times relative to autoregressive decoding.
  • Throughput improves by up to 4.3 times relative to fixed-block diffusion decoding.
  • Performance stays stable as offered load moves from low to high utilization.
  • End-to-end serving capacity rises under latency SLOs because idle time and redundant work both decrease.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same chunk-and-schedule pattern could extend to other iterative non-autoregressive generators that currently fix their step size.
  • Variable-granularity execution might reduce power draw in multi-tenant clusters by keeping GPUs closer to full utilization without extra tokens.
  • Only the scheduler and kernel changes are needed, so the technique could be added to existing diffusion-LLM inference stacks without retraining.

Load-bearing premise

Runtime load can be measured accurately enough for the closed-loop scheduler to pick chunk sizes that improve utilization without adding overhead, and chunked decoding leaves the diffusion model's generated outputs unchanged.

What would settle it

Running the same diffusion model under rapidly varying load with fixed blocks versus Optimus and checking whether token-level accuracy or perplexity diverges when chunk sizes change.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24832 by Bowen Duan, Chiyue Wei, Cong Guo, Danyang Zhuo, Hai "Helen" Li, Haoxuan Shan, Junyao Zhang, Yangjie Zhou, Yifei Wang, Yiran Chen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Load sensitivity of fixed-granularity decoding. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison between autoregressive decoding (left) and block diffusion decoding (right). AR generates one token per step, while diffusion-style decoding generates multiple tokens per iteration, batch size 1. These results demonstrate that Optimus makes diffusion LLM serving practical under dynamic workloads and pro￾vides a system-level foundation that may inform future algo￾rithm design. This study makes th… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Motivation for saturation-aware decoding. (a) AR underutilizes the GPU. (b) Diffusion improves utilization but suffers under high load. (c) Granularity trades off GPU and token utilization. (d) The optimal point tracks the saturation boundary. Experiments use Qwen3-8B (AR) and SDAR-8B (multiple block sizes, from 2 to 32) on an A100 80GB. more compute-dense executions that inherently align with the throughp… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Chunked decoding overview. (a) Block-wise diffusion decoding. (b) Prefix caching removes prefix dependency. (c) Suffix chunking enables fine-grained execution. (d) Streaming chunked decoding restores execution order and efficiency. exceeds a threshold are committed (Decoding → Decoded), while others remain masked. Although decoding tokens produce tentative outputs, their KV states are computed from masked … view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: GPU latency and the committed token modeling. the current batch size 𝑏 obtained from continuous batching. We next describe the modeling of each component in detail. 5.2 Modeling System Efficiency We model the decoding latency 𝑇latency (𝑐, 𝑏) based on the dominant GPU workload. In practice, latency is primarily determined by the fully connected (FC) layers, whose com￾putation scales with the total number of… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Scheduling comparison under a GPU capacity of 16 tokens (1 step = 1s under underload). Top: AR underutilizes the GPU. Middle: elastic decoding operates near saturation. Bottom: BD overloads the GPU. Elastic scheduling balances throughput and latency across workloads. As illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Model accuracy on common LLM benchmarks. request arrival traces using a Poisson arrival process. We set service-level objectives (SLOs) based on application re￾quirements, following common practice in prior LLM serving work [50]. For interactive chat workloads (ShareGPT and LMSYS-Chat-1M), we adopt a relatively stringent 50ms time￾per-output token (TPOT) SLO, as this is generally perceived as instantaneous… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Throughput scaling with batch size. (a) Different chunk sizes exhibit a load-dependent trade-off and form a Pareto frontier; (b) Optimus adapts chunk size at runtime and outperforms AR and fixed-block baselines. batches at every decoding iteration, enabling more flexi￾ble continuous batching and improved resource utilization. LMDeploy also provides an optimized block-wise paged￾attention kernel, making it … view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Throughput comparison across batch sizes. 7.4 End-to-End Serving Performance We next evaluate Optimus in an end-to-end online serving setting, focusing on decoding performance since the prefill behavior is largely identical across methods. Following prior work [50, 54], we measure the P90 TPOT under gradually increasing request rates in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: End-to-end online serving evaluation: P90 TPOT over different request rate. 2 4 6 8 Batch size 0.0 0.2 0.4 Probability mean = 1.8 median = 1.0 Batch size histogram (req/s = 0.5) 0 25 50 75 100 Batch size 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 Probability mean = 25.0 median = 23.0 Batch size histogram (req/s = 4.9) 0 10 20 30 Chunk size 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 Probability mean = 32.0 median = 32.0 Chunk size histogram … view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Throughput across model scales and tensor￾parallel settings. decoding with block size 32 (BD32). We then enable chunked decoding along with fixed chunk sizes, without elastic sched￾uling, to isolate the effect of chunk granularity. Finally, we evaluate the full Optimus design, which combines chunked decoding with runtime elastic scheduling. We report P90 TPOT on ShareGPT using SDAR-8B in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Ablation of chunked decoding and elastic sched￾uling. 8 Related Works LLM Inference Serving. Prior work on LLM serving im￾proves efficiency through scheduling, memory management, and system design within the autoregressive decoding par￾adigm. Orca [46] introduces iteration-level scheduling for dynamic batching. vLLM [22] improves throughput via Page￾dAttention and efficient KV-cache management. SGLang [49… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Large language model (LLM) serving is fundamentally limited by inefficient hardware utilization. Autoregressive (AR) decoding underutilizes GPUs due to its strictly sequential execution, while diffusion LLMs (DLLMs) improve throughput by decoding multiple tokens per iteration. However, fixed block-size diffusion decoding exhibits strong load sensitivity: large blocks exploit idle GPU resources under low load, but saturate early and incur substantial redundant computation under high load. As a result, throughput gains vanish beyond saturation, and no single decoding granularity performs well across dynamic serving workloads. We present Optimus, a serving system that enables elastic decoding for diffusion LLMs by dynamically adapting decoding granularity to runtime load. The key idea is to treat decoding granularity as a runtime control variable, balancing GPU utilization and token efficiency. Optimus combines chunked decoding, which enables fine-grained execution without retraining, with saturation-aware scheduling, a closed-loop mechanism that selects chunk sizes based on runtime conditions. Together with system-level optimizations and customized attention kernels, Optimus achieves significant performance improvements while preserving model accuracy. Experiments show that Optimus delivers up to 6.1x throughput improvement over AR decoding and 4.3x improvement over fixed-block diffusion LLM, while maintaining stable performance across diverse load regimes and improving end-to-end serving capacity under latency constraints. The source code is available at https://github.com/dubcyfor3/Optimus.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents Optimus, a serving system for diffusion LLMs that enables elastic decoding by treating decoding granularity as a runtime control variable. It combines chunked decoding (to allow fine-grained execution without retraining) with a saturation-aware closed-loop scheduler that selects chunk sizes based on monitored runtime load, plus system optimizations and custom attention kernels. The central claim is that this yields up to 6.1× throughput over autoregressive decoding and 4.3× over fixed-block diffusion decoding while preserving accuracy and delivering stable performance across load regimes.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under rigorous evaluation, the work would address a practical limitation in diffusion-LLM serving—load sensitivity of fixed block sizes—by providing a dynamic mechanism that improves GPU utilization without model changes. The open-source release is a positive factor for reproducibility in systems research.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline throughput claims (6.1× vs. AR, 4.3× vs. fixed-block) are stated without any accompanying experimental details, baselines, error bars, accuracy metrics, load definitions, or hardware configuration, rendering the central empirical claim impossible to evaluate from the supplied text.
  2. [Scheduling mechanism (inferred from abstract)] Saturation-aware scheduling description: the closed-loop mechanism is asserted to select chunk sizes from runtime load “without meaningful overhead” and while preserving diffusion behavior, yet no measurements of monitoring cost, decision latency, or oscillation risk under intra-iteration load fluctuations are supplied; these quantities are load-bearing for the claim that elastic decoding outperforms the fixed-block baseline that the paper itself shows saturates early.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline throughput claims (6.1× vs. AR, 4.3× vs. fixed-block) are stated without any accompanying experimental details, baselines, error bars, accuracy metrics, load definitions, or hardware configuration, rendering the central empirical claim impossible to evaluate from the supplied text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, constrained by length, omits the supporting experimental details. The full manuscript provides these in Sections 4 (Experimental Setup) and 5 (Evaluation), including baselines (AR decoding and fixed-block diffusion), hardware (NVIDIA A100 GPUs), load definitions (request rates), accuracy metrics, and results with variability reporting. To improve standalone readability of the abstract, we will revise it to briefly reference the evaluation conditions and hardware. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Scheduling mechanism (inferred from abstract)] Saturation-aware scheduling description: the closed-loop mechanism is asserted to select chunk sizes from runtime load “without meaningful overhead” and while preserving diffusion behavior, yet no measurements of monitoring cost, decision latency, or oscillation risk under intra-iteration load fluctuations are supplied; these quantities are load-bearing for the claim that elastic decoding outperforms the fixed-block baseline that the paper itself shows saturates early.

    Authors: Section 3.2 describes the saturation-aware closed-loop scheduler and its design for low overhead. We acknowledge that explicit measurements of monitoring cost, decision latency, and oscillation risk under fluctuating loads are not quantified in the current version. We will add these measurements (including overhead breakdowns and stability analysis) to the revised evaluation section to directly support the scheduler's claims relative to the fixed-block baseline. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical systems contribution with no load-bearing derivations or self-citation chains

full rationale

The paper describes a serving system (Optimus) using chunked decoding and saturation-aware scheduling for diffusion LLMs. Throughput claims (6.1x vs AR, 4.3x vs fixed-block) are presented as experimental measurements under various loads, not as outputs of any mathematical derivation, fitted parameters, or uniqueness theorems. No equations, ansatzes, or self-citations are invoked to force the central results. The approach is self-contained as an engineering implementation with runtime monitoring and kernel optimizations; the reader's assessment of score 1.0 aligns with the absence of any reduction of claims to inputs by construction.

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