BENCHMARKING INFERENCE ENGINES ON AGENTIC WORKLOADS

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Agentic workloads are reshaping inference engine benchmarks, demanding multi-turn, tool-using scenarios that strain KV cache management and scheduling due to longer traces and varied token distributions. Applied Compute introduced three workload profiles to aid in optimizing engine and accelerator performance. They released an open-source benchmarking tool to replay these scenarios, highlighting the need for solutions such as KV cache offloading and workload-aware routing to improve throughput and efficiency.