Measuring the Inference Energy Efficiency of Open-Weight LLMs across Benchmarks, Reasoning Modes, and Hardware

arXiv:2610.14389 · cs.AI, cs.PF · Submitted 2026-10-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.PF

Submitted: 2026-10-09

Updated: 2026-10-09

Project page: https://huggingface.github.io/AIEnergyScore

Terminology

• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Energy Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark
• Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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