April 17, 2026

Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference

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The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of m...