TensorCommitments: A Lightweight Verifiable Inference for Language Models
Quick summary
arXiv:2602.12630v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most large language models (LLMs) run on external clouds: users send a prompt, pay for inference, and must trust that the remote GPU executes the LLM without any adversarial tampering. We critically ask how to achieve verifiable LLM inference, where a prover (the service) must convince a verifier (the client) that an inference was run correctly without rerunning the LLM. Existing cryptographic works are too slow at the LLM scale, while non-cryptographic ones require a strong verifier GPU. We propose TensorCommitments (TCs), a tensor-nat
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2602.12630v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most large language models (LLMs) run on external clouds: users send a prompt, pay for inference, and must trust that the remote GPU executes the LLM without any adversarial tampering.
- We critically ask how to achieve verifiable LLM inference, where a prover (the service) must convince a verifier (the client) that an inference was run correctly without rerunning the LLM.
- Existing cryptographic works are too slow at the LLM scale, while non-cryptographic ones require a strong verifier GPU.
Why it matters
“TensorCommitments: A Lightweight Verifiable Inference for Language Models” exposes the compute, energy and supply-chain layer behind model competition. Capacity shifts can influence model costs, service availability and the ability of smaller companies to compete.

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