Audience
AI infrastructure engineers looking for a solution to optimize the deployment and serving of large-scale language models in production environments
About vLLM
vLLM is a high-performance library designed to facilitate efficient inference and serving of Large Language Models (LLMs). Originally developed in the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley, vLLM has evolved into a community-driven project with contributions from both academia and industry. It offers state-of-the-art serving throughput by efficiently managing attention key and value memory through its PagedAttention mechanism. It supports continuous batching of incoming requests and utilizes optimized CUDA kernels, including integration with FlashAttention and FlashInfer, to enhance model execution speed. Additionally, vLLM provides quantization support for GPTQ, AWQ, INT4, INT8, and FP8, as well as speculative decoding capabilities. Users benefit from seamless integration with popular Hugging Face models, support for various decoding algorithms such as parallel sampling and beam search, and compatibility with NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs and GPUs, Intel CPUs, and more.