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arxiv: 2605.21427 · v1 · pith:KLGG565Fnew · submitted 2026-05-20 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.DC

PALS: Power-Aware LLM Serving for Mixture-of-Experts Models

Can Hankendi , Rana Shahout , Minlan Yu , Ayse K. Coskun This is my paper

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keywords power-aware LLM servingGPU power cappingenergy efficiencymixture-of-experts modelsfeedback controlvLLMQoS management
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PALS improves LLM serving energy efficiency up to 26.3% by treating GPU power caps as a tunable control knob alongside batch size.

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The paper presents PALS, a runtime system for large language model inference that jointly optimizes GPU power limits and software settings like batch size. It builds simple offline power-performance models and feeds them into a feedback controller to pick configurations that hit throughput targets while using less energy. This matters for data centers where LLMs drive high GPU power draw, because power has usually been treated as a fixed limit rather than something the serving system can actively manage. The implementation sits inside vLLM, requires no model retraining or API changes, and works for both dense models and mixture-of-experts architectures on multi-GPU hardware. Experiments show the approach cuts energy use, sharply reduces quality-of-service violations when power is constrained, and follows changing power budgets.

Core claim

PALS treats GPU power caps as a first-class control knob that is optimized together with batch size. Lightweight offline power-performance models combined with a feedback-driven controller select operating points that satisfy throughput targets while maximizing energy efficiency. The system runs inside an unmodified vLLM serving stack and delivers up to 26.3% better energy efficiency, 4x to 7x fewer QoS violations under power constraints, and the ability to track dynamic power budgets across multi-GPU setups for both dense and MoE models.

What carries the argument

Lightweight offline power-performance models paired with a feedback-driven controller that jointly tunes GPU power caps and batch size to meet throughput targets.

If this is right

  • LLM serving systems can operate closer to energy-proportional behavior by actively lowering power when load permits.
  • Data centers gain the ability to respect dynamic power caps from the grid without large drops in delivered throughput.
  • The same power-aware control loop applies to both dense and sparse mixture-of-experts models without separate tuning paths.
  • Existing inference frameworks can adopt the technique through a runtime layer rather than hardware or model changes.
  • Quality-of-service targets become easier to maintain when power availability fluctuates.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Similar offline modeling plus feedback control could be applied to other GPU-heavy workloads such as training or scientific simulation if comparable power-performance surfaces exist.
  • Integration with demand-response signals from utilities would let AI clusters participate in grid stabilization without custom hardware.
  • Online refinement of the power models during operation might further reduce the gap between predicted and actual energy use under changing thermal conditions.

Load-bearing premise

Lightweight offline power-performance models built without model retraining can accurately guide a feedback controller to choose batch sizes and power caps that meet throughput targets on both dense and MoE models.

What would settle it

Run the controller on a held-out GPU architecture or workload trace and measure whether the selected power-cap and batch-size pairs consistently miss the target throughput by more than a few percent; sustained misses would show the models do not transfer well enough to support the claims.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21427 by Ayse K. Coskun, Can Hankendi, Minlan Yu, Rana Shahout.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) tokens/J vs. power cap showing divergent behavior: compute-bound Mixtral continues to improve while communication-bound Qwen-MoE and OLMoE peak at 200 W and decline. (b) tokens/J vs. batch size: efficiency gains are substantial for all model families. that cannot be captured by either layer alone. This paper introduces the first LLM serving runtime that jointly opti￾mizes hardware power limits and soft… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Compute vs. communication time breakdown by model and configuration. Mixtral remains compute-bound; Qwen-MoE and OLMoE become communication-bound at higher TP and batch size. 3 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Pareto frontier expansion for three MoE models (single node, 4×A100). Four frontiers are shown: SW only (batch sweep, fixed cap), HW only (cap sweep, fixed batch), HW+SW (joint cap×batch), and full joint (HW+SW+TP). The full frontier dominates any single-knob approach; gains are model-dependent and follow the compute/communication ratio. frontiers: it achieves the high-throughput end of the SW-only frontie… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Multi-node scaling: (a) efficiency drops as node count grows, especially for communication-bound Qwen￾MoE; (b) throughput grows but at diminishing efficiency returns. 2.3 Multi-Node Scaling Behavior MoE models do not always scale efficiently simply by adding more nodes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Energy efficiency under expert parallelism across different node counts. Each group shows normalized tokens/J for a given model at 1, 2, and 3 nodes. Models with higher communication intensity exhibit larger efficiency degrada￾tion as parallelism increases. Telemetry layer. The telemetry layer monitors system state in real time, including GPU power consumption, through￾put (tokens/s) and GPU utilization. T… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: PALS runtime design. Telemetry from inference execution is aggregated and fed to a controller that predicts feasible operating points and issues hardware- and software-level actuation decisions. a dataset that captures the mapping from inference config￾urations to performance and power, which is later used to train predictive models for runtime control. We perform controlled parameter sweeps over the follo… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Efficiency headroom from TP under varying power caps. Each curve shows the gap between a fixed-TP deploy￾ment and the best offline TP choice. Headroom varies with changing power caps, indicating that the benefit of TP selec￾tion is power-dependent. over 60-minute runs. We compare four strategies correspond￾ing to different levels of control: no adaptation (Baseline), software-only adaptation (Adaptive Batc… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Normalized tokens/J, average of five MoE models and three dense models. PALS achieves 26.3% improvement over baseline and reaches 95% of oracle efficiency [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Multi-node power-constrained evaluation (3 nodes, 60 min). (a) QoS violation rates: PALS reduces violations by 4×–7×. (b) Normalized aggregate efficiency by strategy. baseline, while able to track the power signal, suffers from underutilization at low power levels, as large batch sizes become inefficient under constrained power. PALS improves throughput by up to 22% at low power targets compared to the sta… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Grid demand-response tracking (1-hour, DeepSeek-MoE, 3-nodes). PALS maintains higher through￾put at low power targets by co-adapting batch size. PALS improves throughput by up to 22% at low power targets compared to the static-batch baseline [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Large language model (LLM) inference has become a dominant workload in modern data centers, driving significant GPU utilization and energy consumption. While prior systems optimize throughput and latency by batching, scheduling, and parallelism, they largely treat GPU power as a static constraint rather than a controllable resource. In this paper, we present a power-aware runtime for LLM serving, PALS, that treats GPU power caps as a first-class control knob and jointly optimizes them with software parameters such as batch size. The system combines lightweight offline power-performance models with a feedback-driven controller to select configurations that satisfy throughput targets while maximizing energy efficiency. We implement PALS within an existing LLM serving framework, vLLM, demonstrating that it requires no model retraining or API changes. Across multi-GPU systems and both dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, PALS improves energy efficiency by up to 26.3%, reduces QoS violations by 4x to 7x under power constraints, and tracks dynamic power budgets. These results highlight the potential of integrating power control directly into LLM inference runtimes, enabling energy-proportional and grid-interactive AI systems.

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Summary. The paper presents PALS, a power-aware runtime for LLM serving that treats GPU power caps as a first-class control knob. It combines lightweight offline power-performance models with a feedback-driven controller to jointly tune batch sizes and power caps, aiming to meet throughput targets while maximizing energy efficiency. Implemented in vLLM with no model retraining or API changes, the system is evaluated on multi-GPU setups for both dense and MoE models, claiming up to 26.3% energy efficiency gains, 4x–7x reductions in QoS violations under power constraints, and the ability to track dynamic power budgets.

Significance. If the results hold, this work could meaningfully advance energy-proportional LLM inference by integrating power control into serving runtimes. The practical focus on deployment without retraining or API modifications, along with explicit evaluation on MoE models, is a strength that addresses an increasingly relevant architecture.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.2] §4.2 (Offline Power-Performance Models): The central claim that lightweight offline models can accurately guide the feedback controller for MoE models rests on the assumption that profiling runs capture input-dependent expert activation patterns. The manuscript does not describe how the models account for variability in routing decisions or token distributions; if constructed from fixed or average-case traces, predictions may deviate in deployment and directly undermine the reported energy-efficiency and QoS-violation results.
  2. [§6] §6 (Evaluation): The quantitative claims (26.3% efficiency improvement, 4x–7x QoS reduction) are presented without reported error bars, number of runs, or explicit description of power-measurement methodology and baselines. This information is load-bearing for assessing whether the gains are robust across input distributions and hardware configurations.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'up to 26.3%' would be clearer if the specific model, hardware configuration, and workload that achieve this maximum were stated.
  2. [§3] Notation: The symbols for power cap (P_cap) and target throughput could be introduced with a small table or equation early in §3 to improve readability for readers unfamiliar with the control loop.

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below, indicating where we agree and plan revisions to strengthen the paper.

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  1. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (Offline Power-Performance Models): The central claim that lightweight offline models can accurately guide the feedback controller for MoE models rests on the assumption that profiling runs capture input-dependent expert activation patterns. The manuscript does not describe how the models account for variability in routing decisions or token distributions; if constructed from fixed or average-case traces, predictions may deviate in deployment and directly undermine the reported energy-efficiency and QoS-violation results.

    Authors: We agree that §4.2 would benefit from a more explicit description of how variability is handled. The offline models were constructed from profiling runs using a diverse collection of input traces drawn from real-world workloads, deliberately including sequences with varying lengths, content, and resulting expert routing patterns to capture input-dependent activation behavior in MoE models. The feedback controller then uses online measurements to compensate for any residual deviations from the profiled averages. We will revise the section to detail the trace selection process, the range of routing variability observed, and how this informs the lightweight model construction. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§6] §6 (Evaluation): The quantitative claims (26.3% efficiency improvement, 4x–7x QoS reduction) are presented without reported error bars, number of runs, or explicit description of power-measurement methodology and baselines. This information is load-bearing for assessing whether the gains are robust across input distributions and hardware configurations.

    Authors: The referee is correct that these details are necessary for rigorous evaluation. We performed 5 independent runs for each reported configuration and will add error bars showing standard deviation. Power was measured via the NVIDIA NVML API with a 100 ms sampling interval on the multi-GPU testbed; baselines were unmodified vLLM with a static power cap matching the hardware limit. We will expand §6 and the experimental setup to include this methodology, the number of runs, and a discussion of robustness across the tested input distributions and hardware setups. revision: yes

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No circularity: empirical offline models plus runtime feedback form a self-contained systems design.

full rationale

The paper presents PALS as a runtime system that constructs lightweight offline power-performance models from profiling runs and feeds them into a feedback-driven controller for joint batch-size and power-cap selection. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or derivations are shown that reduce any claimed prediction or result to its own fitted inputs by construction. The central claims rest on implementation inside vLLM and experimental measurements across dense and MoE models; these are externally falsifiable via reproduction on the same hardware rather than being forced by self-citation chains or definitional loops. The approach therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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