Koi: Evidence-Guided, Self-Calibrating Planning for Multi-Cloud, Heterogeneous LLM Inference Fleets

Overview & Synopsis

Deploying a large language model (LLM) requires choosing the right accelerator, parallelization strategy, engine configuration, and replica count amongst ~140 other variables across clouds, regions, and markets. These decisions are intertwined, and the best cluster-wide plan continually changes as jobs contend for shared capacity on shifting workloads. We present Koi, a self-calibrating cluster planner for heterogeneous, multi-cloud fleets. Koi uses a Recursive Language Model (RLM) hierarchy to propose hypotheses and reason over deployment while deterministic components predict serving behavior, score candidates, and control placement. It represents inference behavior as a fixed causal graph linking decisions (e.g., accelerator, parallelism), runtime mediators (e.g., KV-cache pressure, communication overhead), and outcomes (e.g., latency, throughput). Each deployment strengthens or weakens scoped causal relationships, building a comprehensive playbook for inference that the planner employs to guide future decisions. Job-wise configurations are composed into cluster-wide plans and evaluated against serving objectives, resource constraints, SLO risks, and cost. Across benchmarks, Koi achieves 1.18x greater goodput than the strongest baseline while reducing $/token by 20% in a real heterogeneous cluster. Ablations isolate the contribution of Koi's architecture: a pure language model attains a composite score of 35.3, the same model equipped with Koi's deterministic tools reaches 51.6, and the full Koi planner reaches 70.8.