benchmarking

3 posts

QUANTIZATION · 13BF16QUANTIZEDSAME SCORE, DIFFERENT ANSWERS

Measuring the Damage: Evaluations That Catch Quantization Errors

GSM8K said every 4-bit format matched BF16. A noise baseline, paired comparisons, token-level KL, and a code benchmark showed which ones did not.

SERVING IN PRODUCTION · 02QUIET · FIRST TOKEN, THEN A STEADY STREAMLOADED · LONGER WAIT, LONGER GAPSTHROUGHPUT UP, GOODPUT DOWN

TTFT, ITL, Goodput: Measuring What Users Feel

What TTFT, TPOT, ITL, end-to-end latency, and goodput each measure, how the tools compute them, and why peak throughput is the wrong target.

SERVING IN PRODUCTION · 03SAME BENCHMARK,THREE RUNSMEDIAN TTFT 819 · 1,132 · 894 MS

Benchmark an Inference Server Without Lying to Yourself

Common load-test mistakes made on purpose next to the correct run, on one vLLM server, so each rule comes with how far it moves the numbers.