Introduction to vLLM and PagedAttention

vLLM is an open-source LLM inference and serving engine that utilizes a novel memory allocation algorithm called PagedAttention. It can run your models with up to 24x higher throughput than HuggingFace Transformers (HF) and up to 3.5x higher throughput than HuggingFace Text Generation Inference (TGI). How does vLLM achieve this throughput improvement? Existing systems waste 60%-80% of the KV-Cache (LLM memory), whereas vLLM achieves near-optimal memory usage with a mere waste of under 4%. Because of this improved memory usage, we require fewer GPUs to achieve the same output, so the throughput is significantly higher than that of other inference engines. Thousands of companies use vLLM to reduce inference costs. For example, LMSYS, the organization behind Chatbot Arena and Vicuna, cut the number of GPUs used to serve their growing traffic of ~45k daily requests by 50% while serving 2-3x more requests per second. vLLM leverages PagedAttention to reduce memory waste and achieve these eff

What is vLLM? vLLM is an open-source LLM inference and serving engine that utilizes a novel memory allocation algorithm called PagedAttention. It can run your models with up to 24x higher throughput than HuggingFace Transformers (HF) and up to 3.5x higher throughput than HuggingFace Text Generation Inference (TGI). How does vLLM achieve this throughput improvement? Existing systems waste 60%-80% of the KV-Cache (LLM memory), whereas vLLM achieves near-optimal memory usage with a mere waste of under 4%. Because of this improved memory usage, we require fewer GPUs to achieve the same output,…

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