Towards Resource-Efficient LLMs: End-to-End Energy Accounting of Distillation Pipelines

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• A framework for end-to-end energy accounting of LLM distillation pipelines to guide resource-efficient model development. Distillation is often promoted as one of the most effective paths to obtain cheaper, more efficient models, yet these claims rarely account for the full end-to-end energy and resource costs, including crucial teacher-side workloads such as data generation, logit caching, and evaluation.problem 35%
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  A framework for end-to-end energy accounting of LLM distillation pipelines to guide resource-efficient model development. Distillation is often promoted as one of the most effective paths to obtain cheaper, more efficient models, yet these claims rarely account for the full end-to-end energy and resource costs, including crucial teacher-side workloads such as data generation, logit caching, and evaluation.

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• The rise in deployment of large language models has driven a surge in GPU demand and datacenter scaling, raising concerns about electricity use, grid stress, and the impacts of modern AI workloads. Distillation is often promoted as one of the most effective paths to obtain cheaper, more efficient models, yet these claims rarely account for the full end-to-end energy and resource costs, including crucial teacher-side workloads such as data generation, logit caching, and evaluation.method 35%
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  The rise in deployment of large language models has driven a surge in GPU demand and datacenter scaling, raising concerns about electricity use, grid stress, and the impacts of modern AI workloads. Distillation is often promoted as one of the most effective paths to obtain cheaper, more efficient models, yet these claims rarely account for the full end-to-end energy and resource costs, including crucial teacher-side workloads such as data generation, logit caching, and evaluation.

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• ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. From these measurements and analyses, we derive practical design rules for selecting distillation methods and hyperparameters under energy and budget constraints, and release an open-source measurement harness and accounting protocol to provide a standardized foundation for comparable, reproducible distillation research, explicitly accountable for complete pipeline energy impact.result 35%
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  ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. From these measurements and analyses, we derive practical design rules for selecting distillation methods and hyperparameters under energy and budget constraints, and release an open-source measurement harness and accounting protocol to provide a standardized foundation for comparable, reproducible distillation research, explicitly accountable for complete pipeline energy impact.

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• LLM Training moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 3.0/10.why now 35%
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  LLM Training moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 3.0/10.

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A framework for end-to-end energy accounting of LLM distillation pipelines to guide resource-efficient model development.