Artificial Intelligence · 12.08.2026, 08:55 UTC
Astrolabe: Balancing Load in LLM Serving with Randomized Prediction-Guided Scheduling
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.AI ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 12.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2508.03611v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents Astrolabe, a randomized prediction-guided scheduler for one-shot request dispatch in multi-instance large language model (LLM) serving. Astrolabe improves load balancing without relying on migration-based rebalancing, whose KV-cache transfers can introduce substantial overhead and network contention under high load. It combines response-length estimation, per-instance simulation-based latency prediction, and a power-of-two-choices dispatch policy to balance load while avoiding request herding. On the default Llama-2-7B/ShareGPT setup, Astrolabe matches the SLO capacity of the best load-aware baseline (31.6 versus 31.5 QPS), while reducing mean time-to-first-token (TTFT) by 8 to 36 percent, P99 TTFT by 16 to 77 percent, and mean end-to-end (E2E) latency by up to 5.6 percent, with approximately six times fewer preemptions once capacity is reached. Under configuration shifts, Astrolabe improves SLO capacity by up to 6 percent on Qwen2-7B and 7.1 percent under tight batching, reduces mean E2E latency by 6 to 9 percent under bursty arrivals, and achieves an approximately 2.8-fold reduction in per-predictor CPU usage relative to full fanout. With migration enabled on A100 GPUs, Astrolabe outperforms Llumnix by up to 2.6 times in throughput while achieving orders-of-magnitude lower per-token latency at saturation.