Are Large Language Models Economically Viable for Industry Deployment? (2026.acl-industry)
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Abdullah Mohammad, Sushant Kumar Ray, Pushkar Arora, Rafiq Ali, Ebad Shabbir, Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Jiechao Gao, Usman Naseem
| Challenge: | Generative AI is increasingly deployed in healthcare, financial analytics, and conversational automation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that evaluates large language models across their full lifecycle on legacy GPUs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates LLMs across their full lifecycle on legacy GPUs. |
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