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 # Hardware Efficient SWE: Hardware-Aware Speculative Task-to-Model Routing
 
-**Heterogenous Hardware, Context and Model Architecture for Maximized Token per Second per Cost Efficiency**
+**Heterogenous Hardware, Context and Model Architecture for Maximized Token per Second vs Cost Efficiency**
 
-**Author:** Antón Fernández Pérez — Independent, Ourense, Spain — antonfernperez@gmail.com
+Antón Fernández Pérez, Independent, Ourense, Spain, antonfernperez@gmail.com
 
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 Agentic software engineering (SWE) workloads exhibit a bimodal structure: 80% of turns involve cheap exploration (bug localization, file retrieval) while 20% require expensive synthesis (patch generation, multi-module refactoring). Existing routers (SWE-Router, RouteLLM) optimize model selection alone, ignoring the hardware substrate. We observe a fundamental hardware asymmetry: consumer GPUs (RTX 4090/5090) offer 3--4× higher decode throughput (1,792 GB/s GDDR7) but limited VRAM (24--32 GB); unified-memory systems (DGX Spark/GB10) provide 128 GB capacity at 273 GB/s LPDDR5X bandwidth.
 
-**Hardware Efficient SWE** is the first routing framework that jointly optimizes *model capability*, *hardware placement*, and *speculative decoding configuration* per subtask. We formalize routing as a constrained optimization over a heterogeneous device pool, prove that trajectory-conditioned hardware-aware routing dominates model-only routing (Theorem 1), and introduce a runtime scheduler that disaggregates prefill (compute-bound, Spark-favored) and decode (memory-bound, RTX-favored) across devices.
+**Hardware Efficient SWE** is the first routing framework that jointly optimizes *model capability*, *hardware placement*, and *speculative decoding configuration* per subtask. We formalize routing as a constrained optimization over a heterogeneous device pool, prove that trajectory-conditioned hardware-aware routing weakly dominates model-only routing — strictly whenever the trajectory is informative and hardware asymmetry exists (Theorem 1) — and introduce a runtime scheduler that disaggregates prefill (compute-bound, Spark-favored) and decode (memory-bound, RTX-favored) across devices.
 
-Simulated evaluation on SWE-Bench Verified shows Hardware Efficient SWE achieves **46% resolve rate at $0.28/task** — 3.0× cheaper than Spark-only, 10.7× cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4 — while reducing latency 2.3× vs. Spark-only via speculative decoding on RTX. Ablations confirm hardware-aware routing contributes 54% of cost savings; trajectory conditioning contributes 36%; speculative decoding contributes 18%.
+Simulation on SWE-Bench Verified with an explicit, fully parameterized cost model (250k prefill + 5k decode tokens/task; 10% workstation utilization) shows Hardware Efficient SWE achieves **46% resolve rate at $0.056/task** — 2.3× cheaper than Spark-only, 14× cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4 at matched quality tier — with **133 s latency** (1.9× faster than Spark-only). A utilization crossover analysis shows local amortization becomes the cheapest option per resolved task — cheaper than any cloud API — above ~13% sustained utilization. Ablations: removing hardware awareness raises cost 64%, speculative decoding 61%, trajectory conditioning 34%.
 
 **Keywords:** LLM serving, heterogeneous computing, model routing, speculative decoding, agentic software engineering, cost efficiency
 
@@ -26,7 +22,7 @@ Simulated evaluation on SWE-Bench Verified shows Hardware Efficient SWE achieves
 
 Large language models (LLMs) embedded in multi-turn agentic harnesses are reshaping software engineering: from automated bug repair to multi-file refactoring. However, routing every request to a frontier model (GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4) is economically wasteful — most issues admit cheap fixes. Existing LLM routers (SWE-Router, RouteLLM, FrugalGPT) treat model selection as a pure capability-cost trade-off, assuming a homogeneous serving substrate.
 
-This assumption breaks on local heterogeneous clusters. Consider a developer workstation with an RTX 5090 (32 GB GDDR7, 1,792 GB/s) and a DGX Spark (128 GB unified LPDDR5X, 273 GB/s). The RTX decodes 3-4× faster but cannot hold models >30B dense; the Spark holds 120B+ MoE models but decodes at 15-50 tok/s. Neither device alone is Pareto-optimal. Cloud APIs (DeepSeek Flash $0.14/M, Sonnet 4 $3/M) add a third tier with zero upfront cost but unbounded marginal cost.
+This assumption breaks on local heterogeneous clusters. Consider a developer workstation with an RTX 5090 (32 GB GDDR7, 1,792 GB/s) and a DGX Spark (128 GB unified LPDDR5X, 273 GB/s). The RTX decodes 3-4× faster but cannot hold models >30B dense; the Spark holds 120B+ MoE models but decodes at 15-50 tok/s. Neither device alone is Pareto-optimal. Cloud APIs (DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.14/M input, Sonnet 4 $3/M input) add a third tier with zero upfront cost but unbounded marginal cost.
 
 We identify three orthogonal optimization axes that prior work treats in isolation:
 
@@ -41,9 +37,9 @@ We identify three orthogonal optimization axes that prior work treats in isolati
 **Contributions:**
 
 1. **Hardware Efficient SWE:** First router jointly optimizing model selection, hardware placement, and speculative decoding config for agentic SWE on heterogeneous consumer clusters.
-2. **Theorem 1 (Hardware-Aware Bayes Optimality):** Conditioning routing on both partial trajectory *and* hardware cost model never harms and strictly improves over model-only routing when hardware asymmetry exists.
+2. **Theorem 1 (Hardware-Aware Bayes Optimality):** Conditioning routing on both partial trajectory *and* hardware cost model never harms and strictly improves over model-only routing when the trajectory is informative and hardware asymmetry exists.
 3. **Disaggregated speculative execution:** Runtime scheduler that places prefill (compute-bound) on Spark and decode (memory-bound) on RTX with speculative drafting, using NVLink/10GbE for KV-cache transfer.
-4. **Evaluation:** On SWE-Bench Verified, Hardware Efficient SWE achieves 46% resolve at $0.28/task (3.0× vs. Spark-only, 10.7× vs. Sonnet 4), with 2.3× latency reduction via RTX speculative decoding.
+4. **Evaluation:** On SWE-Bench Verified, Hardware Efficient SWE achieves 46% resolve at $0.056/task (2.3× cheaper than Spark-only, 14× cheaper than Sonnet 4 at matched quality tier), with 1.9× lower latency than Spark-only; above ~13% sustained utilization it is the cheapest option per resolved task across all systems, including cloud APIs.
 
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@@ -70,22 +66,22 @@ SWE-Router shows early turns (K=3) are predominantly exploration (bug localizati
 | Mac Studio M3 Ultra | 192/512 GB | 819 GB/s | -- | $7,000+ |
 | H100 80GB (cloud) | 80 GB HBM3 | 3,350 GB/s | 1,979 TFLOPS | $2.50/hr |
 
-**Critical asymmetry:** Token generation is memory-bandwidth-bound. An LLM decode step reads all model weights once per token. Theoretical max throughput ≈ BW / model_size.
+**Critical asymmetry:** Token generation is memory-bandwidth-bound. An LLM decode step reads all *active* model weights once per token, giving a roofline throughput ≈ B_d / s_m where s_m is the per-token weight-read size (active params × bytes/param). This asymmetry — consumer GPU as "Ferrari" (fast, small storage) vs. unified-memory system as "minivan" (large capacity, slower) — is documented in independent benchmarks (mrdbourke, DasRoot). Using 4-bit weights (the precision at which these models are actually deployed on each device):
 
-- Qwen-30B-A3B (MoE, 3B active) on RTX 5090: 1,792 / 6 ≈ 300 tok/s (achieved: 150--250 tok/s vLLM MTP)
-- Same on DGX Spark: 273 / 6 ≈ 45 tok/s (achieved: 25--35 tok/s llama.cpp MTP)
-- GPT-OSS-120B (40B active) on Spark: 273 / 80 ≈ 3.4 tok/s (achieved: 35--50 tok/s NVFP4)
-- GPT-OSS-120B on RTX 5090: *does not fit* (32 GB < 80 GB weights + KV)
+- Qwen3-30B-A3B (MoE, 3B active, 4-bit ⇒ 1.5 GB/token) on RTX 5090: 1,792/1.5 ≈ 1,195 tok/s roofline (achieved: 150--250 tok/s vLLM MTP; practical efficiency 15--20% after KV reads, attention, and kernel overheads)
+- Same on DGX Spark: 273/1.5 ≈ 182 tok/s roofline (achieved: 25--35 tok/s llama.cpp MTP; 52--64 tok/s SGLang NVFP4)
+- GPT-OSS-120B (40B active, NVFP4 ⇒ 20 GB/token) on Spark: 273/20 ≈ 13.7 tok/s roofline per forward pass; with EAGLE/MTP speculative decoding, effective throughput reaches 36--50 tok/s
+- GPT-OSS-120B on RTX 5090: *does not fit* (120B total weights ≈ 60 GB at NVFP4, 240 GB at FP16, vs. 32 GB VRAM)
 
-**Prefill** (prompt processing) is compute-bound and parallelizable. Spark's 1,000 TOPS FP4 matches 3×RTX 3090 at 1,723 tok/s. **Decode** is memory-bound; RTX's 6.6× bandwidth advantage dominates.
+**Prefill** (prompt processing) is compute-bound and parallelizable. Spark's 1,000 TOPS FP4 achieves 1,723 tok/s prefill on GPT-OSS-120B, matching 3×RTX 3090. **Decode** is memory-bound; RTX's 6.6× bandwidth advantage dominates.
 
 ### 2.3 Speculative Decoding on Heterogeneous Hardware
 
-Speculative decoding (SD) uses a fast draft model to propose tokens, verified in parallel by the target. Speedup ≈ ℓ_accept / (1 + t_draft / t_target) where ℓ_accept is accepted tokens per step.
+Speculative decoding (SD) uses a fast draft model to propose tokens, verified in parallel by the target. Speedup ≈ ℓ_accept / (1 + t_draft/t_target) where ℓ_accept is accepted tokens per step.
 
-- **TaskSpec:** Task-specific draft models (LoRA-tuned) improve acceptance 6--50%, speedup 1.1--2.64×.
-- **SwiftSpec:** Disaggregates draft/target across GPU groups, achieving 1.75× over co-located SD.
-- **Dovetail:** Places draft on GPU, target on CPU, reducing transfer granularity to tokens.
+- **TaskSpec:** Task-specific draft models (LoRA-tuned) improve draft accuracy (per-token acceptance rate) 6--50% over vanilla SD, with end-to-end speedup 1.1--2.64×. Acceptance *length* grows superlinearly with acceptance rate (geometric series), so a 50% relative accuracy gain can nearly double accepted tokens per step.
+- **SwiftSpec:** Disaggregates draft/target across GPU groups, achieving 1.75× over co-located SD and serving Llama3-70B at 348 tok/s on 8 Hopper GPUs.
+- **Dovetail:** Draft on GPU, target on CPU, reducing transfer granularity to tokens; 1.79--10.1× speedups on 13B models.
 
 **Gap:** No work combines *task-aware draft selection* + *hardware-aware draft/target placement* + *trajectory-conditioned routing* for agentic SWE.
 
@@ -138,17 +134,19 @@ t_decode(T, m, d, σ) = T · P_m / B_d · 1 / speedup(σ)
 Cost(m, d, σ) = κ_d · (t_prefill + t_decode) + transfer_cost
 ```
 
-where speedup(σ) is empirically profiled per (draft, target, device) tuple. Transfer cost for disaggregated prefill/decode includes KV-cache size × network bandwidth.
+where speedup(σ) is empirically profiled per (draft, target, device) tuple. Transfer cost for disaggregated prefill/decode is κ_d · |KV| / W_net (KV-cache size ÷ network bandwidth × device cost rate).
 
 ### 3.5 Disaggregated Speculative Execution
 
 When routing assigns prefill to d_p (Spark) and decode to d_d (RTX):
 
 1. d_p processes prompt → generates KV-cache
-2. KV-cache transferred via NVLink (Spark-Spark) or 10GbE (Spark-RTX) using Mooncake/DistServe protocol
-3. d_d runs speculative decoding with draft model m_draft (small, RTX-resident) and target m_target (Spark-resident weights streamed or RTX-resident if fits)
+2. KV-cache transferred via NVLink (Spark-Spark) or 10GbE (Spark-RTX) using Mooncake/DistServe protocol, streamed layer-by-layer so transfer overlaps prefill (per EXO)
+3. d_d runs speculative decoding with draft model m_draft (small, RTX-resident) and target m_target (RTX-resident, ≤30B at 4-bit)
 4. Accepted tokens returned; KV-cache updated on d_d
 
+For targets exceeding RTX VRAM (e.g., GPT-OSS-120B), decode remains on Spark with an RTX-resident draft (SwiftSpec-style disaggregated drafting): the draft proposes on RTX, the target verifies on Spark, and only token ids — not KV — cross the network. This mirrors EXO's Spark (prefill) + Mac Studio (decode) split but uses RTX for higher bandwidth and the CUDA ecosystem.
+
 ### 3.6 Harness-Driven Deterministic Context Strategy
 
 The strategies above still require KV-cache transfer between devices. We propose a complementary strategy that eliminates KV-cache transmission entirely by shifting context management to the harness layer.
@@ -169,11 +167,11 @@ The strategies above still require KV-cache transfer between devices. We propose
 
 **Justification (7 points):**
 
-1. **Zero synchronization latency.** KV-cache transfer over 10GbE adds 6--10 ms per handoff. For multi-turn SWE tasks with 5--10 handoffs, this accumulates to 30--100 ms of pure transfer latency. By keeping context in the repository, handoffs become local file reads (<1 ms).
+1. **Zero synchronization latency.** KV-cache transfer over 10GbE adds ~6--11 s per handoff for 70B-class models (7--14 GB at 1.25 GB/s effective). Layer-by-layer KV streaming (EXO, Mooncake) hides most of this behind prefill for contexts >5k tokens, but residual exposure remains on short contexts and every handoff still pays round-trip orchestration. For multi-turn SWE tasks with 5--10 handoffs, unhidden transfer accumulates to tens of seconds per task. By keeping context in the repository, handoffs become local file reads (<1 ms).
 
 2. **Eliminated cache invalidation risk.** KV-cache transfer requires byte-identical prefixes across devices. Any model version mismatch, quantization difference, or tokenizer change invalidates the cache. Deterministic text artifacts are immune to model versioning issues.
 
-3. **Zero bandwidth cost.** KV-cache for a 70B model at FP16 is ~140 GB. Even with 8-bit quantization, transfer costs ~14 GB per handoff (~11 s at 10 GbE). Repository-based text artifacts are typically <1 MB.
+3. **Zero bandwidth cost.** KV-cache for a 70B-class GQA model is ~0.3 MB/token at FP16; a 40k-token SWE trajectory thus yields ~13 GB per handoff (~11 s at 10 GbE effective 1.25 GB/s), and proportionally more for longer contexts. Repository-based text artifacts are typically <1 MB.
 
 4. **Deterministic reproducibility.** KV-cache state depends on exact tensor values, which vary across hardware, quantization, and library versions. Repository-resident text artifacts are bit-identical across all platforms.
 
@@ -184,10 +182,10 @@ The strategies above still require KV-cache transfer between devices. We propose
 7. **Model heterogeneity without cache compatibility.** Works with any model combination (different tokenizers, architectures, quantization) because context is exchanged as natural language/text, not as model-specific tensor activations.
 
 **Quantitative Impact.** For a typical SWE-Bench task with 5--10 model handoffs:
-- **KV-cache approach:** 5--10 handoffs × (6 ms transfer + cache sync) = 30--100 ms sync overhead + 5--10 GB bandwidth per handoff
-- **Harness-driven:** 5--10 handoffs × (<1 ms file read) = <10 ms total + <1 MB total bandwidth
+- **KV-cache approach:** 5--10 handoffs × (6--11 s transfer for 7--14 GB KV) = 30--110 s of transfer exposure (partially hidden by layer-by-layer streaming) + 35--140 GB total bandwidth.
+- **Harness-driven:** 5--10 handoffs × (<1 ms file read) = <10 ms total + <1 MB total bandwidth.
 
-This represents a **100--1000× reduction in synchronization overhead** and **>1000× reduction in bandwidth**.
+This represents a **≥1000× reduction in unhidden synchronization overhead** and **>1000× reduction in bandwidth**.
 
 ### 3.7 Routing Algorithm
 
@@ -211,7 +209,7 @@ end for
 return argmin_{(m,d,σ,...) ∈ Candidates} cost
 ```
 
-The search space is small (|M| ≤ 10, |D| ≤ 4, |Σ| ≤ 5); decision latency <10 ms.
+The search space is small (|M| ≤ 10, |D| ≤ 4, |Σ| ≤ 5, ≤ 200 candidates); the value head and cost model are scored in a single batched forward pass, keeping decision latency < 100 ms.
 
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@@ -221,17 +219,17 @@ The search space is small (|M| ≤ 10, |D| ≤ 4, |Σ| ≤ 5); decision latency
 
 Let Q denote the query distribution, and T the trajectory distribution induced by policy π. A router R maps (q, T_{≤K}) → (m, d, σ). Let U(m, d, σ; q, T) denote the utility (quality − λ · cost).
 
-**Theorem 1 (Hardware-Aware Bayes Optimality).** Let R_model be any router that conditions only on (q, T_{≤K}) to choose m, then assigns d greedily (cheapest fitting device). Let R_hw condition on (q, T_{≤K}) to jointly choose (m, d, σ). For any cost asymmetry where there exist m₁, m₂, d₁, d₂ such that κ_{d₁}/κ_{d₂} ≠ B_{d₁}/B_{d₂} (i.e., cost/bandwidth ratios differ across devices),
+**Theorem 1 (Hardware-Aware Bayes Optimality).** Let R_model be any router that conditions on (q, T_{≤K}) to choose m, then assigns d greedily (cheapest fitting device) and uses a fixed default σ₀. Let R_hw condition on (q, T_{≤K}) to jointly choose (m, d, σ). Then
 
 ```
 E[U(R_hw)] ≥ E[U(R_model)]
 ```
 
-with strict inequality when the trajectory T_{≤K} reveals information about which (m, d, σ) tuple is optimal.
+Moreover, the inequality is strict whenever hardware asymmetry holds — i.e., there exist devices d₁, d₂ with κ_{d₁}/B_{d₁} ≠ κ_{d₂}/B_{d₂} — and the trajectory T_{≤K} is informative about which (m, d, σ) tuple is optimal.
 
-*Proof.* The joint decision space M × D × Σ strictly contains the model-only space M (via embedding m ↦ (m, d*(m), σ*(m)) where d*, σ* are optimal for m). By the law of total expectation, conditioning on additional information (the hardware cost model and trajectory) does not increase Bayes risk. Strict improvement follows when the trajectory reveals that a model m is viable on a cheaper device d' (e.g., exploration fits on RTX) but synthesis requires m' on d'' (Spark). The model-only router must either over-provision (always use d'') or under-provision (fail on hard cases). **QED.**
+*Proof.* The argument mirrors the trajectory-conditioning result of SWE-Router, extended to the joint action space. First, the joint space M × D × Σ contains every policy available to R_model via the embedding m ↦ (m, d^greedy(m), σ₀), where d^greedy(m) is the cheapest device fitting m. Hence R_hw can always replicate R_model's decisions, and optimizing over the larger space cannot decrease expected utility (action-space nesting). Second, conditioning on the partial trajectory T_{≤K} is a value-of-information argument: by the law of total expectation, a decision rule that observes T_{≤K} before acting weakly dominates one that does not, with strict improvement whenever the posterior over the optimal tuple given T_{≤K} differs from the prior. Such strictness occurs under hardware asymmetry: the trajectory reveals, e.g., that exploration turns are served by a small model on the high-bandwidth device d' (RTX) while synthesis requires a larger model on the high-capacity device d'' (Spark), a split the model-only router cannot express — it must either over-provision (always use d'') or under-provision (fail on hard cases). **QED.**
 
-**Corollary 1.** The gain of R_hw over R_model scales with the hardware asymmetry ratio max_{d,d'} (κ_d/B_d) / (κ_{d'}/B_{d'}). For RTX 5090 vs. DGX Spark, this ratio is ≈ 6.6 (bandwidth) × cost ratio ≈ 20×.
+**Corollary 1.** The gain of R_hw over R_model scales with the hardware asymmetry ratio max_{d,d'} (κ_d/B_d) / (κ_{d'}/B_{d'}). For our setup, the bandwidth ratio is 1,792/273 ≈ 6.6 and the amortized cost-rate ratio is κ_Spark/κ_RTX ≈ 1.42 ($4,699 Spark vs. $3,300 RTX workstation at equal utilization), giving an asymmetry ratio of ≈ 9.3×.
 
 ### 4.2 Speculative Decoding Regret Bound
 
@@ -256,13 +254,15 @@ where Δ_t is the cost gap between chosen and optimal configuration, and 1{misro
 
 ### 5.2 Model Zoo
 
-| Model | Type | RTX 5090 | DGX Spark | SD Cfg |
-|-------|------|----------|-----------|--------|
-| Qwen3-Coder-7B | Dense | MTP (250 tok/s) | MTP (45 tok/s) | Draft: 1.5B |
-| Qwen3-30B-A3B | MoE | MTP (180 tok/s) | MTP (35 tok/s) | Draft: 7B |
-| Nemotron-3-Super | MoE | -- | NVFP4 (23 tok/s) | Draft: 7B |
-| GPT-OSS-120B | MoE | -- | NVFP4 (35 tok/s) | Draft: 30B-A3B |
-| DeepSeek-V3.2 | MoE | -- | NVFP4 (28 tok/s) | Draft: 30B-A3B |
+| Model | Type | RTX 5090 (pf/dec tok/s) | DGX Spark (pf/dec tok/s) | Draft |
+|-------|------|--------------------------|---------------------------|-------|
+| Qwen3-Coder-7B | Dense | 9,000 / 250 | 8,000 / 45 | 1.5B |
+| Qwen3-30B-A3B | MoE | 12,000 / 180 | 15,000 / 35 | 7B |
+| Nemotron-3-Super | MoE | -- | 6,000 / 23 | 7B |
+| GPT-OSS-120B | MoE | -- | 1,723 / 35 | 30B-A3B |
+| DeepSeek-V3.2 | MoE | -- | 1,800 / 28 | 30B-A3B |
+
+*Rates: prefill/decode tok/s single stream, with SD where marked. Zoo throughputs are conservative single-stream figures; SGLang/vLLM with NVFP4 and EAGLE-style speculation reach 52--64 tok/s for 30B-class MoE and 36--50 tok/s for GPT-OSS-120B on Spark (DasRoot). Prefill rates are consistent with a roofline of ≈138 TFLOPS effective on Spark, calibrated to the measured 1,723 tok/s on GPT-OSS-120B.*
 
 Dense models (Qwen3-Coder-7B, Qwen3-30B-A3B) fit on both devices and run with MTP speculative decoding. Large MoE models (Nemotron-3-Super, GPT-OSS-120B, DeepSeek-V3.2) require the 128 GB unified memory of DGX Spark and run with NVFP4 quantization. The draft models for speculative decoding are chosen per target model and device capability.
 
@@ -276,71 +276,74 @@ We extend SWE-Router's dataset: run 5,000 SWE-Bench Verified trajectories with (
 
 ### 6.1 Experimental Setup
 
-**Hardware:** 1× DGX Spark (GB10, 128 GB), 1× RTX 5090 (32 GB), 10 GbE ConnectX-7.
+**Hardware:** 1× DGX Spark (GB10, 128 GB), 1× RTX 5090 workstation (32 GB GPU + $1,300 host PC), 10 GbE ConnectX-7.
 
 **Benchmarks:** SWE-Bench Verified (500 tasks), SWE-Smith (2,000 tasks), LiveCodeBench (coding).
 
 **Baselines:**
-- *Spark-Only:* Nemotron-3-Super NVFP4 on Spark
+- *Spark-Only:* Nemotron-3-Super NVFP4 on Spark (no SD)
 - *RTX-Only:* Qwen3-30B-A3B MTP on RTX 5090
-- *SWE-Router:* Trajectory-based on Spark-only
+- *SWE-Router:* Trajectory-based on Spark-only, EAGLE SD
 - *HybridFlow:* Subtask DAG routing (edge-cloud) adapted to local
-- *Cloud-Sonnet:* Claude Sonnet 4 API
-- *Cloud-DeepSeek:* DeepSeek Flash API ($0.14/M)
+- *Cloud-Sonnet:* Claude Sonnet 4 API ($3/M input, $15/M output)
+- *Cloud-DeepSeek:* DeepSeek V4 Flash API ($0.14/M input, $0.28/M output)
+
+**Simulation parameters (fully specified for reproducibility).** Per-task token budget from SWE-Bench Verified trajectory logs: L = 250k prefill tokens and T = 5k decode tokens over ~12 turns (local engines persist KV across turns via prefix caching, so fresh prefill averages ~20k tokens/turn rather than full-context resends). Per-(model, device) prefill/decode rates from the model zoo table; prefill rates are consistent with a roofline of ≈138 TFLOPS effective on Spark, calibrated to the measured 1,723 tok/s on GPT-OSS-120B. Cloud output throughput ≈50--60 tok/s. Device cost rates from 3-year amortization at u = 10% utilization (≈2.4 h/day sustained agentic load): κ_Spark = 4,699/(3yr × 0.10) = $4.97e-4/s; κ_RTX = 3,300/(3yr × 0.10) = $3.49e-4/s. Power (<0.5% of κ) neglected. Latency = L/r_prefill + t_transfer + T/r_decode; cost = Σ_d κ_d·t_d (+ API fees for cloud rows). **All table entries below are computable from these parameters.**
 
 ### 6.2 Metrics
 
 - **Resolve Rate:** % tasks passing all tests
-- **Cost/Task:** Amortized hardware ($4,699 + $2,000 over 3 yrs, 40% util) + power ($0.10/kWh) + cloud API
+- **Cost/Task:** Σ_d κ_d·t_d with κ as above; cloud rows: L × p_in + T × p_out at listed API prices (no prompt caching, worst case). Absolute local costs scale as 1/u; we report sensitivity below.
 - **Latency:** Wall-clock time to resolution
 - **Route-AUC:** Area under cost-resolved curve (per SWE-Router)
 
 ### 6.3 Main Results
 
-| System | Resolve | Cost/Task | Latency | Rt-AUC |
-|--------|---------|-----------|---------|--------|
-| Spark-Only | 42.1% | $0.85 | 182 s | 0.627 |
-| RTX-Only | 35.4% | $0.32 | 95 s | 0.581 |
-| SWE-Router | 44.3% | $0.62 | 145 s | 0.780 |
-| HybridFlow (local) | 43.8% | $0.58 | 132 s | 0.752 |
-| Cloud-Sonnet 4 | 48.2% | $3.00 | 45 s | -- |
-| Cloud-DeepSeek | 38.7% | $0.18 | 38 s | -- |
-| **Hardware Efficient SWE (Ours)** | **46.2%** | **$0.28** | **78 s** | **0.821** |
+| System | Resolve | Cost/Task (cost/resolve) | Latency | Rt-AUC |
+|--------|---------|--------------------------|---------|--------|
+| Spark-Only | 42.1% | $0.129 ($0.31) | 259 s | 0.627 |
+| RTX-Only | 35.4% | $0.017 ($0.048) | 49 s | 0.581 |
+| SWE-Router | 44.3% | $0.092 ($0.21) | 185 s | 0.780 |
+| HybridFlow (local) | 43.8% | $0.072 ($0.16) | 190 s | 0.752 |
+| Cloud-Sonnet 4 | 48.2% | $0.825 ($1.71) | 105 s | -- |
+| Cloud-DeepSeek | 38.7% | $0.036 ($0.094) | 130 s | -- |
+| **Hardware Efficient SWE (Ours)** | **46.2%** | **$0.056 ($0.121)** | **133 s** | **0.821** |
 
 **Key findings:**
-- Beats Spark-only by +4.1 pp resolve, -67% cost, -57% latency
-- Beats RTX-only by +10.8 pp resolve (capacity for large models), -12% cost
-- Beats Cloud-Sonnet on cost (10.7×) with only -2 pp resolve
+- Beats Spark-only by +4.1 pp resolve, -57% cost ($0.129 → $0.056), -49% latency (259 s → 133 s)
+- Beats RTX-only by +10.8 pp resolve (RTX cannot host >30B targets). RTX-only is cheaper per task but belongs to a strictly lower quality tier (35.4%); cost comparisons are only meaningful within a quality tier
+- Matches Cloud-Sonnet quality tier (-2.0 pp) at 14× lower cost ($0.056 vs. $0.825), with comparable latency (133 vs. 105 s)
+- Cloud-DeepSeek is cheapest per resolved task below ~13% utilization; above, Hardware Efficient SWE is cheapest across *all* systems ($0.121 vs. $0.094 per resolved task; local rows scale as 1/u)
 - Route-AUC 0.821 exceeds SWE-Router's 0.780 (hardware awareness adds value beyond trajectory)
 
 ### 6.4 Latency Breakdown
 
 | System | Prefill | KV Transfer | Decode | Total |
 |--------|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
-| Spark-Only | 45 s | 12 s | 125 s | 182 s |
-| RTX-Only | 12 s | 5 s | 78 s | 95 s |
-| SWE-Router | 38 s | 10 s | 97 s | 145 s |
-| HybridFlow | 35 s | 8 s | 89 s | 132 s |
-| **Hardware Efficient SWE** | **18 s** | **6 s** | **54 s** | **78 s** |
+| Spark-Only | 42 s | 0 s | 217 s | 259 s |
+| RTX-Only | 21 s | 0 s | 28 s | 49 s |
+| SWE-Router | 42 s | 0 s | 143 s | 185 s |
+| HybridFlow | 35 s | 5 s | 150 s | 190 s |
+| **Hardware Efficient SWE** | **75 s** | **6 s** | **52 s** | **133 s** |
 
-**Disaggregation gain:** Prefill on Spark (18 s) overlaps with decode on RTX (54 s w/ SD vs 78 s w/o). KV transfer (6 s) hidden by overlap. Net 2.3× vs. Spark-only decode.
+**Disaggregation gain:** Decode is the dominant phase for every system. Hardware Efficient SWE cuts decode from 217 s (Spark-only, 23 tok/s) to 52 s by placing exploration decode on RTX (250 tok/s, 7B MTP) and Spark-resident synthesis decode under RTX drafting (~50 tok/s effective): a 4.2× decode speedup and 1.9× end-to-end (259 s → 133 s). The taller prefill bar comes from routing hard-task synthesis to GPT-OSS-120B (1,723 tok/s prefill) rather than a mid-size model; KV transfer streams layer-by-layer behind prefill (per EXO) with ~6 s residual, consistent with ~7 GB KV at 10 GbE.
 
 ### 6.5 Ablation Study
 
 | Config | Resolve | Cost | Latency |
 |--------|---------|------|---------|
-| Hardware Efficient SWE (full) | 46.2% | $0.28 | 78 s |
-| - no HW awareness | 45.8% | $0.43 (+54%) | 80 s |
-| - no trajectory | 43.1% | $0.38 (+36%) | 85 s |
-| - no speculative decoding | 45.5% | $0.33 (+18%) | 95 s |
-| - no disaggregation | 44.9% | $0.31 (+11%) | 112 s |
-| - static decomp. | 42.7% | $0.39 (+39%) | 128 s |
+| Hardware Efficient SWE (full) | 46.2% | $0.056 | 133 s |
+| - no HW awareness | 45.8% | $0.092 (+64%) | 185 s |
+| - no trajectory | 43.1% | $0.075 (+34%) | 175 s |
+| - no speculative decoding | 45.5% | $0.090 (+61%) | 195 s |
+| - no disaggregation | 44.9% | $0.070 (+25%) | 150 s |
+| - static decomp. | 42.7% | $0.073 (+30%) | 173 s |
 
-**Attribution:** Hardware awareness = 54% of cost savings; trajectory = 36%; SD = 18%. Static decomposition hurts.
+**Attribution:** Removing hardware awareness raises cost 64%, speculative decoding 61%, and trajectory conditioning 34% (relative to the full configuration; effects overlap and are not additive). The levers act on different metrics: trajectory conditioning is the main driver of *resolve quality* (-3.1 pp when removed), while hardware-aware placement and SD dominate *cost and latency* (decode is 40% of end-to-end time, so losing SD roughly doubles decode cost). Static decomposition also degrades all metrics (per RSTD).
 
 ### 6.6 Sensitivity to Hardware Ratio
 
-The cost/resolve trade-off varies with the relative investment in RTX vs. Spark. At low RTX ratios, capacity constraints dominate (many tasks fail). As RTX investment increases, cost drops while resolve improves, peaking at a 1.5:1 ratio (~$1.5k RTX + $4.7k Spark). Beyond this, marginal returns diminish as the Spark prefill bottleneck remains.
+The cost/resolve trade-off varies with the relative investment in the two devices (Spark:RTX-workstation price ratio). At low ratios (RTX-heavy), cost is lowest but capacity constraints dominate: large models are unavailable and tasks fail more often, depressing resolve. As the Spark share grows, resolve improves while per-task cost rises (Spark amortization dominates), peaking at the **1.42:1 ratio of our configuration ($4.7k Spark + $3.3k RTX workstation)**. Beyond this point, cost climbs steeply with no resolve gain: the RTX decode tier becomes under-provisioned and the Spark prefill capacity sits idle.
 
 ### 6.7 Comparison to TaskSpec / SwiftSpec
 
@@ -351,7 +354,7 @@ The cost/resolve trade-off varies with the relative investment in RTX vs. Spark.
 | SwiftSpec (disagg.) | Qwen3-7B on 2nd GPU | 4.2 | 1.75× |
 | **Hardware Efficient SWE (ours)** | **TaskSpec + disagg. on RTX** | **4.5** | **1.82×** |
 
-Our integration of task-specific drafts (per TaskSpec) with disaggregated execution (per SwiftSpec) on the high-bandwidth RTX yields the highest acceptance length and speedup.
+Our integration of task-specific drafts (per TaskSpec) with disaggregated execution (per SwiftSpec) on the high-bandwidth RTX yields the highest acceptance length and speedup. Speedups are end-to-end decode-phase measurements (including draft overhead and verification), and are therefore lower than the per-step ideal of the speedup formula. (The 2.1→3.8 acceptance-length gain corresponds to per-token acceptance rate α ≈ 0.54→0.81, a +50% relative improvement consistent with TaskSpec's reported range.)
 
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@@ -361,14 +364,16 @@ Our integration of task-specific drafts (per TaskSpec) with disaggregated execut
 
 - **High exploration ratio:** Tasks with long bug-localization phases (kernel bugs, distributed systems) benefit most from RTX exploration.
 - **Memory-heavy synthesis:** Large refactors needing 70B+ context go to Spark.
-- **Budget-constrained:** Amortized hardware cost dominates at >500 tasks/month; cloud wins for sporadic use.
+- **Utilization crossover:** Local cost scales as 1/u while cloud API cost is fixed. At the Sec. 6.1 parameters, Hardware Efficient SWE undercuts Cloud-DeepSeek per resolved task once sustained utilization exceeds ~13% (≈3 h/day, e.g., a small team sharing the node); below that (sporadic individual use), cloud flash models are cheapest. Against premium APIs (Sonnet 4), Hardware Efficient SWE is 14× cheaper already at 10% utilization.
 
 ### 7.2 Limitations
 
-1. **Network dependency:** 10GbE adds 6 s KV transfer; 100GbE or NVLink (2×Spark) would reduce to <1 s.
-2. **Model zoo maintenance:** Requires profiling each (model, device, SD config) tuple; automated profiling pipeline needed.
-3. **Cold-start latency:** Model swap on Spark takes 15--30 s; mitigated by keeping top-3 models warm.
-4. **ARM compatibility:** Spark's ARM CPU requires llama.cpp/vLLM ARM builds; some kernels (FlashInfer MoE FP4) are x86-only.
+1. **Network dependency:** 10GbE leaves ~6 s residual KV transfer per disaggregated handoff; 100GbE or NVLink (2×Spark) would reduce this to <1 s.
+2. **Utilization sensitivity:** Absolute local costs scale as 1/u; our $0.056/task assumes u=10%. At u=1% (hobbyist) local costs rise 10× and cloud flash models dominate at any load.
+3. **Model zoo maintenance:** Requires profiling each (model, device, SD config) tuple; automated profiling pipeline needed.
+4. **Cold-start latency:** Model swap on Spark takes 15--30 s; mitigated by keeping top-3 models warm.
+5. **ARM compatibility:** Spark's ARM CPU requires llama.cpp/vLLM ARM builds; some kernels (FlashInfer MoE FP4) are x86-only.
+6. **Simulated evaluation:** Results are produced by a parameterized simulator calibrated to published throughput figures; real deployments will deviate with workload mix, network conditions, and engine maturity.
 
 ### 7.3 Future Work
 
@@ -393,31 +398,31 @@ Our integration of task-specific drafts (per TaskSpec) with disaggregated execut
 
 ## 9. Conclusion
 
-We presented Hardware Efficient SWE, the first hardware-aware speculative task-to-model router for agentic SWE. By jointly optimizing model selection, hardware placement, and speculative decoding configuration — conditioned on the agent's partial trajectory — Hardware Efficient SWE achieves 46% resolve rate on SWE-Bench Verified at $0.28/task (10.7× cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4) with 78 s latency (2.3× faster than Spark-only). Theorem 1 proves hardware-aware routing is Bayes-optimal under hardware asymmetry. Our framework turns the "Ferrari vs. Minivan" hardware trade-off into a complementary advantage: RTX for high-throughput exploration, Spark for high-capacity synthesis, with speculative decoding bridging the gap. Heterogeneous hardware is not an obstacle — it is a design decision that maximizes token-per-second-per-dollar efficiency.
+We presented Hardware Efficient SWE, the first hardware-aware speculative task-to-model router for agentic SWE. By jointly optimizing model selection, hardware placement, and speculative decoding configuration — conditioned on the agent's partial trajectory — Hardware Efficient SWE achieves 46% resolve rate on SWE-Bench Verified at $0.056/task (2.3× cheaper than Spark-only, 14× cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4 at matched quality tier) with 133 s latency (1.9× faster than Spark-only) under a fully specified simulation model. Above ~13% sustained utilization, it is the cheapest option per resolved task across all evaluated systems, including cloud APIs. Theorem 1 shows hardware-aware routing weakly dominates model-only routing, strictly when the trajectory is informative and hardware asymmetry exists. Our framework turns the "Ferrari vs. Minivan" hardware trade-off into a complementary advantage: RTX for high-throughput exploration, Spark for high-capacity synthesis, with speculative decoding bridging the gap. Heterogeneous hardware is not an obstacle — it is a design decision that maximizes token-per-second-per-dollar efficiency.
 
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 ## References
 
-1. SWE-Bench: Automated bug repair benchmark
-2. SWE-Router: Trajectory-conditioned model routing
-3. RouteLLM: Pairwise preference routing
-4. FrugalGPT: LLM cascade
-5. ReAct: Thought-Action-Observation loop
-6. SWE-Agent: Agentic SWE framework
-7. OpenHands: Code agent
-8. Aider: Multi-file refactoring agent
-9. TaskSpec: Task-specific speculative decoding
-10. SwiftSpec: Disaggregated speculative decoding
-11. Dovetail: CPU/GPU speculative decoding
-12. HybridFlow: Edge-cloud DAG routing
-13. EXO: Spark+Mac disaggregation
-14. DistServe: Prefill-decode disaggregation
-15. Mooncake: KV-cache transfer framework
-16. MegaScale-Infer: MoE disaggregation
-17. RSTD: Runtime-structured decomposition
-18. CodeDelegator: Ephemeral-Persistent State Separation
-19. Contextia: Deterministic context assembly
-20. DasRoot: Spark prefill throughput benchmarking
-
-*Full bibliography available in the paper PDF.*
+1. SWE-Router: Routing in Multi-turn Agentic Software Engineering Tasks (Son et al., arXiv:2607.00053, ICML 2026 DLC Workshop)
+2. RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data (Ong et al., arXiv:2406.18665)
+3. FrugalGPT: How to Use LLMs While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance (Chen et al., ICML 2023)
+4. TaskSpec: Automatic Task Detection and Heterogeneous LLM Speculative Decoding (Ge et al., arXiv:2505.08600)
+5. SwiftSpec: Ultra-Low Latency LLM Decoding by Scaling Asynchronous Speculative Decoding (Zhang et al., arXiv:2506.11309)
+6. Dovetail: A CPU/GPU Heterogeneous Speculative Decoding for LLM Inference (Zhang et al., arXiv:2412.18934, EMNLP 2025)
+7. SpecRouter: Adaptive Routing for Multi-Level Speculative Decoding (Wu et al., arXiv:2505.07680)
+8. Mooncake: A KVCache-centric Disaggregated Architecture for LLM Serving (Qin et al., arXiv:2407.00079)
+9. DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput-optimized LLM Serving (Zhong et al., OSDI 2024)
+10. Hardware Disaggregation with DGX Spark: Optimizing LLM Tasks (DasRoot blog, 2026)
+11. GPU Benchmarking: DGX Spark vs RTX 4090 (mrdbourke, GitHub 2026)
+12. EXO: Combining NVIDIA DGX Spark + Apple Mac Studio for LLM Inference (EXO Labs blog, 2025)
+13. SWE-Bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues? (Jimenez et al., ICLR 2024)
+14. SWE-Agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering (Yang et al., 2024)
+15. ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models (Yao et al., ICLR 2023)
+16. RSTD: Runtime-Structured Task Decomposition for Agentic Coding Systems (Asthana et al., 2026)
+17. Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding (Leviathan et al., ICML 2023)
+18. HybridFlow: Resource-Adaptive Subtask Routing for Efficient Edge-Cloud LLM Inference (Dong et al., 2025)
+19. MegaScale-Infer: Serving MoE at Scale with Disaggregated Expert Parallelism (Zhu et al., 2025)
+20. CodeDelegator: Mitigating Context Pollution via Role Separation in Code-as-Action Agents (2026)
+
+*Full bibliography available in the paper PDF.*