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arxiv: 2606.23001 · v2 · pith:A5IZOGZYnew · submitted 2026-06-22 · 💻 cs.SE · cs.LG· cs.OS

EnerInfer: Energy-Aware On-Device LLM Inference

Bohua Zou , Nian Liu , Binqi Sun , Matteo Mascherin , Debayan Roy , Yutao Liu , Yu Peng , Ning Jia
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keywords on-device LLM inferenceenergy efficiencyNPU frequency scalingthermal managementquality of experiencepower predictionmodel structure
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EnerInfer predicts throughput and power from model structure to select energy-efficient NPU and memory frequencies for on-device LLM inference without QoE loss.

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

The paper establishes that on-device LLM inference often contains slack in hardware frequency settings where modestly lower NPU and memory speeds preserve response quality while cutting energy use and heat. It claims that per-model profiling and component sensors are impractical on commercial devices, so EnerInfer replaces them with predictions based on model structure plus lightweight online feedback. This allows the system to choose efficient configurations under interference and to switch modes for thermal limits using short-horizon temperature forecasts. The result is reported energy-efficiency gains of up to 65 percent on phones, 12 percent on a laptop, and 24 percent on a development board across real LLMs.

Core claim

EnerInfer is the first on-device LLM inference framework that jointly manages energy efficiency, throughput, and thermal comfort by replacing per-model profiling with disaggregated model-structure-aware prediction of throughput and power, ranking-driven online feedback for configuration selection, and limited-horizon thermal prediction for dynamic mode switching.

What carries the argument

Disaggregated model-structure-aware prediction of throughput and power with ranking-driven online feedback and limited-horizon thermal prediction to select NPU/DDR frequency settings.

Load-bearing premise

Predictions of throughput and power derived from model structure generalize accurately to unseen LLMs and changing runtime conditions without per-model profiling or component-level sensors.

What would settle it

Run an unseen LLM on a phone, apply the predicted efficient frequency setting under typical interference, and measure whether energy use drops by the claimed amount while response latency and thermal limits stay within QoE bounds.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.23001 by Binqi Sun, Bohua Zou, Debayan Roy, Haibo Chen, Matteo Mascherin, Nian Liu, Ning Jia, Yu Peng, Yutao Liu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Component-wise power consumption of LLM-based text polishing on a phone under the default settings and our method for on-device inference, as well as a cloud-offloaded inference. continues to erode battery life and heighten battery anxiety, undermining their practicality in everyday mobile scenarios [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Time breakdown of decoding a token in LLaMA2–1.3B. Layers 0 50 Heads 0 25 KV group 0 5 Hidden size 0 5k FFN ratio 0 5 Vocab 0 200k [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Box plot of energy efficiency rankings (1st, 2nd, etc.) of hardware configurations across LLMs on the phone. Each box summarizes results from 300 LLMs. 𝑀𝑥 and 𝑁𝑥 denote the 𝑥-th frequency level of Mem and NPU, where 𝑥 = 0 corresponds to the lowest available frequency level (the same convention applies below). The laptop and the board exhibit similarly large variation. the maximum frequencies (upper right c… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Left: Box plot of average power (NPU+Mem) across models at different frequencies on the laptop, showing significant variation. Each box reflects inter-model variation, not temporal fluctuation. Right: Power distribution across 300 models at setting M6N3. Other platforms show similar trends and thus are omitted. notable variations in dynamic power even under the same settings [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Strip plot of throughput normalized to the highest across LLMs and configurations on the laptop. Each strip contains 300 LLMs. The phone/board show similar trends, thus omitted. Insight 2: The efficiency ranking of hardware configurations is model-dependent and non-monotonic, which necessitates an accurate throughput and power prediction. Peak and scaled decoding throughput. As the num￾ber of on-device LLM… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Overview of EnerInfer. ML models are employed to pre￾dict the throughput and power of unseen LLMs across hardware configurations to choose the most energy efficient one that meets the QoE requirement. A runtime thermal predictor is adopted to dynamically enable or disable a thermal-aware controller. 4 Design of EnerInfer 4.1 Overview To enable energy-efficient on-device LLM inference, we pro￾pose EnerInfer… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Accuracy of throughput and power prediction, the Kendall’s Tau correlation of predicted efficiency (the closer to 1, the better), showing high accuracy in predicting the efficiency ranking. The dotted line shows a 10% error margin. degradation relative to the peak value, and the baseline mono￾lithic predictor uses the same set of inputs. Accuracy. Figure 10a shows the prediction accuracy of throughput und… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Thermal prediction accuracy in the test dataset. Dotted line: 0.5℃ error margin. It can accurately predict the temperature over the next 1-21 seconds. denotes the NPU and Mem frequency settings, and 𝐽𝑁 repre￾sents the cost accumulated over 𝑁 steps. 𝑢 ∗ = arg min 𝑢 𝐽𝑁 (1) One component of the cost function is the negative value of the tokens generated before the temperature threshold, encouraging the contr… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: MAPE across frequencies and Kendall’s Tau (𝜏, the closer to 1 the better) between predicted and ground truth in unseen real￾world LLMs. G, L, and Q refer to Gemma2, LLaMA2/3.2, and Qwen2. Baselines. We select the Default configuration to reflect the behavior of "on-demand" governors, which drive the NPU and DDR to their maximum frequencies under the sustained high load of LLM inference. To evaluate the en… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Actual efficiency and throughput of EnerInfer across speed targets, using predicted results, compared to an oracle with ground-truth measurements. Shaded regions mark a practical QoE > 5 tokens/s. EnerInfer closely matches oracle across QoE targets. during the decoding phase. Oracle serves as the upper bound [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: The shell temperature and decoding throughput under a back-to-back inference scenario before it reaches thermal threshold. Default: default max. frequency setting. Ener: energy-aware setting without thermal management. EnerInfer(QoE): our method with QoE constraint. EnerInfer: our method without QoE constraint. EnerInfer Others NPU+Mem Default Others NPU+Mem Polish Conv 0 30 60 90 120 Energy Consumption (… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: End-to-end total energy reduction by EnerInfer in real￾world scenarios. Long (∼50%) post-inference display time dilutes the gains. NPU+Mem shows the inference energy. 6.4 Real-world deployment [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_15.png] view at source ↗
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On-device LLM inference is increasingly attractive for privacy-preserving, reliable, and cost-effective deployment, yet its energy and thermal costs remain a critical bottleneck. Existing systems primarily optimize for decoding speed, implicitly assuming that faster execution is always preferable. We show instead that on-device LLM inference often has exploitable configuration slack: modestly lowering NPU and memory frequencies preserves quality of experience (QoE) while substantially improving energy efficiency and reducing heat. Realizing this opportunity in production is challenging. The most energy-efficient NPU/DDR setting varies with the model, inference engine, platform, and runtime conditions, with no stable ranking across configurations. Commercial devices further lack component-level power sensing, and shell temperature evolves with request arrivals, response lengths, and thermal history. To address these challenges, we propose EnerInfer, the first on-device LLM inference framework that jointly manages energy efficiency, throughput, and thermal comfort for LLM workloads. EnerInfer replaces per-model profiling and sensor-heavy control with disaggregated, model-structure-aware prediction and ranking-driven online feedback. It predicts throughput and power for unseen LLMs across NPU/DDR frequency settings, selects QoE-satisfying efficient configurations under runtime interference, and uses lightweight limited-horizon thermal prediction to dynamically switch between energy-optimized and thermally constrained inference. Evaluations on real-world LLMs show that EnerInfer improves energy efficiency by up to 65%, 12%, and 24% on phones, a laptop, and a development board, respectively, without QoE violation.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces EnerInfer, an on-device LLM inference framework that uses disaggregated model-structure-aware predictions of throughput and power to select QoE-safe NPU/DDR frequency configurations, combined with limited-horizon thermal prediction for dynamic switching. It claims this replaces per-model profiling and component sensors, yielding energy-efficiency gains of up to 65% on phones, 12% on a laptop, and 24% on a development board across real-world LLMs without QoE violation.

Significance. If the prediction-based selection generalizes reliably, the work would offer a practical advance for energy- and thermally-constrained on-device LLM deployment by exploiting configuration slack that speed-only optimizers miss. The disaggregated prediction approach could reduce the need for device-specific profiling, which is valuable for production systems.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline energy-efficiency gains (65%/12%/24%) rest on the claim that model-structure-aware throughput/power predictions generalize to unseen LLMs and select QoE-safe settings without per-model profiling or component sensors. No prediction accuracy metrics, training-set composition, held-out LLM results, or error analysis under runtime interference are supplied, so the central claim that the ranking step preserves QoE while delivering the reported savings cannot be evaluated.
  2. [Evaluation] Evaluation section (implied by abstract claims): the absence of cross-model validation or sensitivity analysis for the predictors directly undermines the assertion that the framework works for LLMs never seen during predictor construction. If prediction error increases for models whose structure deviates from the training distribution, the QoE guarantee or the energy savings can fail; this is load-bearing for the replacement of profiling.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract refers to 'disaggregated, model-structure-aware prediction' without defining the structural features used or the disaggregation granularity; a short methods paragraph would clarify this for readers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on EnerInfer. The comments highlight the need for clearer presentation of the prediction components that underpin our energy-efficiency claims. We respond to each major comment below and indicate where revisions will strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline energy-efficiency gains (65%/12%/24%) rest on the claim that model-structure-aware throughput/power predictions generalize to unseen LLMs and select QoE-safe settings without per-model profiling or component sensors. No prediction accuracy metrics, training-set composition, held-out LLM results, or error analysis under runtime interference are supplied, so the central claim that the ranking step preserves QoE while delivering the reported savings cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We agree the abstract is too terse on these supporting details. The full manuscript (Section 4.2) describes the disaggregated predictor training on a set of 12 LLMs and reports MAE for throughput and power on held-out models, plus a sensitivity study under background interference. However, these numbers are not summarized in the abstract. We will revise the abstract to include a concise statement of prediction accuracy (e.g., average MAE < 8% for throughput and < 12% for power on held-out models) and note the training-set composition. We will also add a short paragraph in the evaluation section explicitly linking prediction error to QoE preservation under the reported workloads. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section (implied by abstract claims): the absence of cross-model validation or sensitivity analysis for the predictors directly undermines the assertion that the framework works for LLMs never seen during predictor construction. If prediction error increases for models whose structure deviates from the training distribution, the QoE guarantee or the energy savings can fail; this is load-bearing for the replacement of profiling.

    Authors: The manuscript does contain cross-model results (held-out LLMs in Section 5.3) and a limited sensitivity analysis to structural deviation. Nevertheless, the referee is correct that a more explicit ablation showing how prediction error scales with model size and architecture deviation would strengthen the generalization argument. We will expand the evaluation section with an additional table reporting per-model prediction error and the resulting QoE margin for three LLMs outside the original training distribution, plus a short discussion of failure modes when error exceeds the QoE slack. revision: yes

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full rationale

The provided abstract and context describe a systems framework that fits disaggregated predictors on model structure to estimate throughput/power for unseen LLMs, then uses those estimates for configuration selection. No equations, self-definitions, or load-bearing self-citations are shown that would make any 'prediction' equivalent to its training inputs by construction. The central energy-saving claims rest on reported empirical results across devices rather than a closed derivation chain, so the work is self-contained against external benchmarks.

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