agentic-kvc/analysis/characterization/current_results/main_claim_allowed_runs.md

Main-Claim Allowed Runs

Status: current audit gate Date: 2026-05-25

Allowed For Workload-Shape Claims

These artifacts can support trace/workload characterization claims:

• dash0:/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/ali-trace/trace-glm5.1-formatted/051315-051317.jsonl
  • Compact formatted full trace.
  • CPU summary recorded in full_trace_summary.json.
  • Supports long-input/short-output and session token-mass skew claims.
  • Does not prove runtime cache hits or online sequentiality.
• traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl
  • Local sampled trace.
  • Useful for local dry runs and figure generation.
  • Not the canonical full-trace source.

Allowed For Legacy Baseline Sanity Claims

These existing runs can support sanity-level comparisons, but not final paper-grade SRR claims:

• outputs/gpu_ab_combined
• outputs/gpu_ab_pdsep
• outputs/contention_16s_ts10
• outputs/contention_16s_elastic
• outputs/combined_1000req
• outputs/exp3_pd_sep_tp1_mooncake

Allowed claims:

• Static PD-sep was worse than combined in these existing fixed-request runs.
• Elastic transfer-based migration did not improve the summarized 500-request high-contention run.
• GPU-util imbalance exists in these artifacts.

Disallowed claims:

• Online SRR.
• Per-session sequentiality.
• Causal attribution of prefill/decode interference.
• Causal attribution of session hot spots from GPU utilization alone.

Not Yet Allowed For Main Claims

The following need fresh instrumentation or fresh runs:

• Batch 2 prefill/decode interference.
• Batch 3 session hot-spot root cause.
• Batch 4 sustainable request rate.
• Batch 5 failure attribution near SRR boundary.

Required Upgrade Before Paper-Grade Claims

Future main-claim runs must include:

• per-request actual dispatch timestamp;
• per-request finish/error timestamp;
• route decision and selected worker;
• per-worker queue delay;
• per-worker KV occupancy;
• per-worker APC/cache-hit snapshot;
• attempted/completed/error/goodput counters;
• session-causal load generation.