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Welcome to vLLM!
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vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving.
vLLM is fast with:
* State-of-the-art serving throughput
* Efficient management of attention key and value memory with **PagedAttention**
* Continuous batching of incoming requests
* Fast model execution with CUDA/HIP graph
* Quantization: `GPTQ <https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323>`_, `AWQ <https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00978>`_, INT4, INT8, and FP8
* Optimized CUDA kernels, including integration with FlashAttention and FlashInfer.
* Speculative decoding
* Chunked prefill
vLLM is flexible and easy to use with:
* Seamless integration with popular HuggingFace models
* High-throughput serving with various decoding algorithms, including *parallel sampling*, *beam search*, and more
* Tensor parallelism and pipeline parallelism support for distributed inference
* Streaming outputs
* OpenAI-compatible API server
* Support NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs and GPUs, Intel CPUs, Gaudi® accelerators and GPUs, PowerPC CPUs, TPU, and AWS Trainium and Inferentia Accelerators.
* Prefix caching support
* Multi-lora support
For more information, check out the following:
* `vLLM announcing blog post <https://vllm.ai>`_ (intro to PagedAttention)
* `vLLM paper <https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180>`_ (SOSP 2023)
* `How continuous batching enables 23x throughput in LLM inference while reducing p50 latency <https://www.anyscale.com/blog/continuous-batching-llm-inference>`_ by Cade Daniel et al.
* :ref:`vLLM Meetups <meetups>`.
Documentation
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Getting Started
getting_started/installation
getting_started/amd-installation
getting_started/openvino-installation
getting_started/cpu-installation
getting_started/gaudi-installation
getting_started/neuron-installation
getting_started/tpu-installation
getting_started/xpu-installation
getting_started/quickstart
getting_started/debugging
getting_started/examples/examples_index
.. toctree::
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:caption: Serving
serving/openai_compatible_server
serving/deploying_with_docker
serving/deploying_with_k8s
serving/deploying_with_nginx
serving/distributed_serving
serving/metrics
serving/env_vars
serving/usage_stats
serving/integrations
serving/tensorizer
serving/compatibility_matrix
serving/faq
.. toctree::
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:caption: Models
models/supported_models
models/adding_model
models/enabling_multimodal_inputs
models/engine_args
models/lora
models/vlm
models/structured_outputs
models/spec_decode
models/performance
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Quantization
quantization/supported_hardware
quantization/auto_awq
quantization/bnb
quantization/gguf
quantization/int8
quantization/fp8
quantization/fp8_e5m2_kvcache
quantization/fp8_e4m3_kvcache
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Automatic Prefix Caching
automatic_prefix_caching/apc
automatic_prefix_caching/details
.. toctree::
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:caption: Performance
performance/benchmarks
.. Community: User community resources
.. toctree::
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:caption: Community
community/meetups
community/sponsors
.. API Documentation: API reference aimed at vllm library usage
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:caption: API Documentation
dev/sampling_params
dev/pooling_params
dev/offline_inference/offline_index
dev/engine/engine_index
.. Design: docs about vLLM internals
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:caption: Design
design/arch_overview
design/huggingface_integration
design/plugin_system
design/input_processing/model_inputs_index
design/kernel/paged_attention
design/multimodal/multimodal_index
.. For Developers: contributing to the vLLM project
.. toctree::
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:caption: For Developers
contributing/overview
contributing/profiling/profiling_index
contributing/dockerfile/dockerfile
Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`