Trust-Aware Routing for Distributed Generative AI Inference at the Edge

ArXi:2603.28622v1 Announce Type: cross Emerging deployments of Generative AI increasingly execute inference across decentralized and heterogeneous edge devices rather than on a single trusted server. In such environments, a single device failure or misbehavior can disrupt the entire inference process, making traditional best-effort peer-to-peer routing insufficient. Coordinating distributed generative inference. therefore. requires mechanisms that explicitly account for reliability, performance variability, and trust among participating peers.