MLPerf Endpoints — Submitter Documentation¶
How to prepare, validate and submit an MLPerf® Endpoints benchmark result.
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New here
What the benchmark measures, how a submission moves through review, and which division you belong in.
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Ready to submit
The eight-step path from an empty directory to a submission in the review queue.
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Rules
What you must meet, what gets you rejected, and which rules are still moving.
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Reference
Three CLIs, two hand-authored files, one bundle layout, every compliance check.
Round status¶
| Submission model | Rolling — submit any day, no fixed deadline |
| Publication cohorts | 1st and 3rd Wednesday monthly, 08:00 Pacific |
| Cohort cutoff | Automated checks must pass ≥ 1 business day before the Wednesday |
| Rules version | v1.0 (draft) |
| Milestone | v1.0 submission round tentatively 2026-09-01, then rolling |
There is no submission deadline. Submissions are timestamped on receipt and enter review immediately; results publish in the next cohort they clear.
Coming from MLPerf Inference?¶
Five things work differently here:
| MLPerf Inference | MLPerf Endpoints | |
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| Schedule | Fixed rounds, advance registration | Rolling; register by holding a PRISM token |
| Result | A score at one operating point | A Pareto curve — minimum 7 points |
| Divisions | Closed / Open | Standardized / Serviced / RDI |
| Cross-query KV reuse | Prohibited | Permitted, with a per-query salt |
| TTFT percentile | — | P90 for v1.0 (v0.7 used P95) |
Full detail in What is MLPerf Endpoints? and Model equivalence.
Before you invest hardware time¶
The v1.0 rules are a working draft
MLPerf Endpoints v1.0 rules are on an active development branch, and several sections that determine how long your runs must be and what you must disclose are explicitly marked tentative or pending working-group ratification. Read Open questions and WIP rules before you commit accelerator time.
Authoritative sources¶
This site is a guided path over the sources below. It doesn't restate policy. Where this site and the policy repository disagree, the policy repository is correct.
mlcommons/endpoints_policies— all rules and processmlcommons/endpoints-submission-cli— submission CLI and checkermlcommons/endpoints— the reference benchmark client