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A preview of production-scale Kimi K3 support in vLLM, including KDA-aware prefix caching, fused kernels, optimized MXFP4 MoE, multimodal integration, and initial NVIDIA and AMD paths.
How vLLM maintains production quality with extensive CI across diverse accelerators, nightly performance benchmark and accuracy evaluation, and a two-week release process.
vLLM brings day-0 support to TML Inkling, a 1T-parameter multimodal model, with MTP, long-context serving, parallelism, and up to 380 tokens per second per user on NVIDIA GB200 GPUs.
vLLM prefill paired with TileRT decode through vLLM V1's connector interface: a specialized, latency-optimized decode engine that coexists with native vLLM decode behind one shared serving layer, with zero changes to vLLM.
How AMD Quark trains, quantizes, and serves EAGLE-3 speculative-decoding drafts with vLLM on AMD Instinct GPUs, delivering up to 2.00x throughput gains for Kimi-K2.5 and 1.79x for MiniMax-M2.5.
How HPC-Ops integrates Hopper-optimized attention and FP8 MoE backends into vLLM for Tencent Hunyuan Hy3, improving mixed-length decode, MoE latency, TTFT, and TPOT on NVIDIA H20.
How vLLM-Omni serves and optimizes Qwen3-Omni with staged Thinker-Talker-Code2Wav execution, batching, CUDA Graphs, async chunk, async output, replicas, hot-path cleanup, and perf validation.
How vLLM-Omni supports and optimizes Qwen3-TTS, VoxCPM2, Higgs Audio V3, and Fish Speech S2 Pro with staged serving, batching, CUDA Graphs, and model-specific kernels.
How Session-Aware Agentic Routing in vLLM Semantic Router preserves long-horizon agent continuity with session memory, safe model-switch boundaries, prefix-cache-aware switch pricing, and replayable traces.
How vLLM Semantic Router hardens multimodal routing by turning visual evidence into trustworthy signals, debugging a Rust/Candle vision-encoder parity issue, and validating image signal correctness for production policy.
How EAGLE 3.1 improves speculative decoding robustness in vLLM with FC normalization, post-norm hidden-state feedback, TorchSpec training support, and config-driven compatibility with EAGLE 3 checkpoints.
How PegaFlow integrates with vLLM as an external KV cache service, using a Rust daemon, CUDA IPC, RDMA, SSD caching, and the external KV connector to improve startup, sharing, throughput, and cache lifecycle.
How vLLM achieved leading Artificial Analysis results for DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax-M2.5, and Qwen 3.5 397B using open-source kernel fusion, speculative decoding, Blackwell optimizations, and model-specific serving work.
What vLLM FP8 KV-cache validation found across Hopper and Blackwell, covering attention quantization, Flash Attention 3 fixes, memory savings, decode speedups, and layers to skip.
How Model Runner V2 reworks vLLM's execution core with modular model logic, GPU-native input preparation, stable persistent batching, async-first scheduling, and no API changes.
How P-EAGLE brings parallel speculative decoding to vLLM by generating multiple draft tokens in one forward pass, with pre-trained drafter heads, config support, and B200 speedups over EAGLE-3.
A technical walkthrough of the vLLM Triton attention backend, covering performance-portable paged attention kernels, backend selection, autotuning, CUDA graph behavior, benchmarks, and NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel support.
How vLLM orchestrates high-performance inference on AMD ROCm with multiple attention backends, workload-aware prefill, extend, and decode routing, AITER primitives, MLA support, and MI300X-class benchmarks.
How vLLM serves many fine-tuned MoE and dense models with Multi-LoRA, including fused MoE LoRA kernels, Triton compiler fixes, Split-K and CTA swizzling optimizations, and SageMaker AI and Bedrock tuning.
What DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-R1 benchmark results show on NVIDIA GB300 with vLLM, covering NVFP4 quantization, TP and EP deployment, throughput, and reproducible setup details.
How vLLM improves WideEP and large-scale DeepSeek-style MoE serving on NVIDIA GB200 with NVFP4 and FP8 kernels, fusion, prefill/decode disaggregation, weight offloading, and reduced chunking overhead.
How vLLM and NVIDIA optimized GPT-OSS on Blackwell with FlashInfer, torch.compile fusion, FP8 KV cache, async scheduling, stream interval tuning, and deployment recipes that improve throughput and interactivity.
How vLLM's asynchronous KV offloading connector stores KV cache in CPU memory to reduce recomputation, improve throughput under memory pressure, and support pluggable offload backends.
How vLLM-Omni speeds up diffusion model inference with Cache-DiT and TeaCache, reusing intermediate computations across timesteps to deliver 1.5x to 2x image generation speedups with minimal quality loss.
How vLLM reaches 2.2k tokens per second per H200 for DeepSeek-style MoE serving with Wide-EP, async scheduling, dual-batch overlap, disaggregated serving, CUDA graphs, DeepGEMM, and expert load balancing.
How shared memory IPC caching in vLLM reduces redundant data transfers for multimodal and multi-process inference, improving prefill throughput and TTFT by sharing large inputs across coordinator and worker processes.
How vLLM and TorchTitan demonstrate bitwise consistent on-policy RL by matching training and inference numerics, using batch-invariant kernels to reduce train-inference mismatch and stabilize reinforcement learning.
How vLLM Sleep Mode enables fast model switching by hibernating weights to CPU RAM or discarding them while preserving process state, CUDA graphs, allocators, and kernel warmup to avoid full reloads.
How vLLM and NVIDIA optimize Blackwell inference for SemiAnalysis InferenceMAX, improving gpt-oss 120B and Llama 3.3 70B throughput with FP4 kernels, scheduling work, and Pareto-frontier benchmarking.
How torch.compile works inside vLLM, including TorchDynamo graph capture, TorchInductor code generation, custom compiler passes, graph breaks, model compilation strategy, and performance optimization.
How vLLM supports gpt-oss 20B and 120B on NVIDIA Blackwell, Hopper, and AMD GPUs, with MXFP4 MoE kernels, efficient attention, hybrid KV cache allocation, and built-in tool support.
How vLLM serves MiniMax-M1's hybrid MoE architecture for long-context inference, covering model deployment, memory management, batched serving, backend optimizations, and Docker-based setup.
What changed in vLLM V1: a re-architected engine with a simpler scheduler, near-zero-overhead prefix caching, cleaner tensor parallelism, multiprocessing API server, and default optimizations for higher-throughput serving.
How structured decoding works in vLLM, covering JSON outputs, grammar-guided generation, outlines, XGrammar, TPOT improvements, constrained decoding, and agentic workflow use cases.
Best practices for serving LLMs with vLLM on AMD MI300X, covering ROCm setup, Llama 3.1 70B and 405B benchmarks, chunked prefill, multi-step scheduling, prefix caching, graph capture, and AMD tuning.
How speculative decoding works in vLLM, covering EAGLE, Medusa, n-gram proposals, draft and target runners, scheduler and memory-manager changes, and continuous batching for lower token latency.
What changed in vLLM v0.6.0 to improve throughput and latency, including API server isolation, reduced CPU overhead, multi-step scheduling, async execution, and benchmarks against earlier vLLM versions.
A performance comparison of vLLM and DeepSpeed-FastGen, explaining when Dynamic SplitFuse helps, where vLLM is faster, and how memory allocation, output length, and workload shape affect throughput.
What the original vLLM launch announced: PagedAttention for KV cache management, up to 24x throughput over Hugging Face Transformers, and lower-cost high-throughput LLM serving.
