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| [**Blog**](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-07-25-sglang-llama3/) | [**Paper**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07104) | [**Slides**](https://github.com/sgl-project/sgl-learning-materials/blob/main/slides/amd_dev_day_v2.pptx) | [**Join Slack**](https://join.slack.com/t/sgl-fru7574/shared_invite/zt-2ngly9muu-t37XiH87qvD~6rVBTkTEHw) | [**Join Bi-Weekly Development Meeting (Oct. 19)**](https://calendar.app.google/GYW7S8QGoanCuaxW6) |
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## Upcoming Events
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- [Oct. 16, 2024] Online meetup for efficient LLM deployment and serving, co-hosted by SGLang, FlashInfer, and MLC LLM! Fill out the [Google form](https://forms.gle/B3YeedLxmrrhL1NM8) to receive the invite link. (Directly join the [Meeting link](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81267838086?pwd=qz1s2pktTsl9xNPg2lXM7fMR2A0mOm.1) if you are too late to register.)
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## News
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- [2024/09] 🔥 SGLang v0.3 Release: 7x Faster DeepSeek MLA, 1.5x Faster torch.compile, Multi-Image/Video LLaVA-OneVision ([blog](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-09-04-sglang-v0-3/)).
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- [2024/07] 🔥 Faster Llama3 Serving with SGLang Runtime (vs. TensorRT-LLM, vLLM) ([blog](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-07-25-sglang-llama3/)).
- [2024/02] SGLang enables **3x faster JSON decoding** with compressed finite state machine ([blog](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-02-05-compressed-fsm/)).
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- [2024/04] SGLang is used by the official **LLaVA-NeXT (video)** release ([blog](https://llava-vl.github.io/blog/2024-04-30-llava-next-video/)).
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- [2024/01] SGLang provides up to **5x faster inference** with RadixAttention ([blog](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-01-17-sglang/)).
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- [2024/01] SGLang powers the serving of the official **LLaVA v1.6** release demo ([usage](https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA?tab=readme-ov-file#demo)).

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## About
SGLang is a fast serving framework for large language models and vision language models.
It makes your interaction with models faster and more controllable by co-designing the backend runtime and frontend language.
The core features include:

- **Fast Backend Runtime**: Provides efficient serving with RadixAttention for prefix caching, jump-forward constrained decoding, continuous batching, token attention (paged attention), tensor parallelism, FlashInfer kernels, chunked prefill, and quantization (INT4/FP8/AWQ/GPTQ).
- **Flexible Frontend Language**: Offers an intuitive interface for programming LLM applications, including chained generation calls, advanced prompting, control flow, multi-modal inputs, parallelism, and external interactions.
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- **Extensive Model Support**: Supports a wide range of generative models (Llama, Gemma, Mistral, QWen, DeepSeek, LLaVA, etc.) and embedding models (e5-mistral), with easy extensibility for integrating new models.
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- **Active Community**: SGLang is open-source and backed by an active community with industry adoption.

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## Contents
- [Install](#install)
- [Backend: SGLang Runtime (SRT)](#backend-sglang-runtime-srt)
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- [Frontend: Structured Generation Language (SGLang)](#frontend-structured-generation-language-sglang)
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- [Benchmark And Performance](#benchmark-and-performance)
- [Roadmap](#roadmap)
- [Citation And Acknowledgment](#citation-and-acknowledgment)

## Install

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You can install SGLang using any of the methods below.

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### Method 1: With pip
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pip install --upgrade pip
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pip install "sglang[all]"
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# Install FlashInfer CUDA kernels
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pip install flashinfer -i https://flashinfer.ai/whl/cu121/torch2.4/
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### Method 2: From source
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# Use the last release branch
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git clone -b v0.3.3.post1 https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang.git
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pip install --upgrade pip
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# Install FlashInfer CUDA kernels
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### Method 3: Using docker
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The docker images are available on Docker Hub as [lmsysorg/sglang](https://hub.docker.com/r/lmsysorg/sglang/tags), built from [Dockerfile](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/tree/main/docker).
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Replace `<secret>` below with your huggingface hub [token](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/security-tokens).
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```bash
docker run --gpus all \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
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### Method 4: Using docker compose

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> A better approach is to use the [k8s-sglang-service.yaml](docker/k8s-sglang-service.yaml).
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### Method 5: Run on Kubernetes or Clouds with SkyPilot

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To deploy on Kubernetes or 12+ clouds, you can use [SkyPilot](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot).

1. Install SkyPilot and set up Kubernetes cluster or cloud access: see [SkyPilot's documentation](https://skypilot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/installation.html).
2. Deploy on your own infra with a single command and get the HTTP API endpoint:
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<summary>SkyPilot YAML: <code>sglang.yaml</code></summary>

```yaml
# sglang.yaml
envs:
  HF_TOKEN: null

resources:
  image_id: docker:lmsysorg/sglang:latest
  accelerators: A100
  ports: 30000

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```bash
# Deploy on any cloud or Kubernetes cluster. Use --cloud <cloud> to select a specific cloud provider.
HF_TOKEN=<secret> sky launch -c sglang --env HF_TOKEN sglang.yaml

# Get the HTTP API endpoint
sky status --endpoint 30000 sglang
```
3. To further scale up your deployment with autoscaling and failure recovery, check out the [SkyServe + SGLang guide](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/tree/master/llm/sglang#serving-llama-2-with-sglang-for-more-traffic-using-skyserve).
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### Common Notes
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- [FlashInfer](https://github.com/flashinfer-ai/flashinfer) is the default attention kernel backend. It only supports sm75 and above. If you encounter any FlashInfer-related issues on sm75+ devices (e.g., T4, A10, A100, L4, L40S, H100), please switch to other kernels by adding `--attention-backend triton --sampling-backend pytorch` and open an issue on GitHub.
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- If you only need to use the OpenAI backend, you can avoid installing other dependencies by using `pip install "sglang[openai]"`.
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## Backend: SGLang Runtime (SRT)
The SGLang Runtime (SRT) is an efficient serving engine.

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### Quick Start
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Launch a server
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python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --port 30000
```

Send a request
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curl http://localhost:30000/generate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "Once upon a time,",
    "sampling_params": {
      "max_new_tokens": 16,
      "temperature": 0
    }
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```
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Learn more about the argument specification, streaming, and multi-modal support [here](docs/en/sampling_params.md).
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### OpenAI Compatible API
In addition, the server supports OpenAI-compatible APIs.

```python
import openai
client = openai.Client(
    base_url="http://127.0.0.1:30000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")

# Text completion
response = client.completions.create(
	model="default",
	prompt="The capital of France is",
	temperature=0,
	max_tokens=32,
)
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# Chat completion
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="default",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful AI assistant"},
        {"role": "user", "content": "List 3 countries and their capitals."},
    ],
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# Text embedding
response = client.embeddings.create(
    model="default",
    input="How are you today",
)
print(response)
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It supports streaming, vision, and almost all features of the Chat/Completions/Models/Batch endpoints specified by the [OpenAI API Reference](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/).
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### Additional Server Arguments
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- To enable multi-GPU tensor parallelism, add `--tp 2`. If it reports the error "peer access is not supported between these two devices", add `--enable-p2p-check` to the server launch command.
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- If you see out-of-memory errors during serving, try to reduce the memory usage of the KV cache pool by setting a smaller value of `--mem-fraction-static`. The default value is `0.9`.
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- See [hyperparameter_tuning.md](docs/en/hyperparameter_tuning.md) on tuning hyperparameters for better performance.
- If you see out-of-memory errors during prefill for long prompts, try to set a smaller chunked prefill size.
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- To enable torch.compile acceleration, add `--enable-torch-compile`. It accelerates small models on small batch sizes.
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- To enable fp8 weight quantization, add `--quantization fp8` on a fp16 checkpoint or directly load a fp8 checkpoint without specifying any arguments.
- To enable fp8 kv cache quantization, add `--kv-cache-dtype fp8_e5m2`.
- If the model does not have a chat template in the Hugging Face tokenizer, you can specify a [custom chat template](docs/en/custom_chat_template.md).
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### Engine Without HTTP Server

We also provide an inference engine **without a HTTP server**. For example,

```python
import sglang as sgl


def main():
    prompts = [
        "Hello, my name is",
        "The president of the United States is",
        "The capital of France is",
        "The future of AI is",
    ]
    sampling_params = {"temperature": 0.8, "top_p": 0.95}
    llm = sgl.Engine(model_path="meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")

    outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
    for prompt, output in zip(prompts, outputs):
        print("===============================")
        print(f"Prompt: {prompt}\nGenerated text: {output['text']}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
```

This can be used for:

1. **Offline Batch Inference**
2. **Building Custom Servers**

You can view the full example [here](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/tree/main/examples/runtime/engine)

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### Supported Models

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**Generative Models**
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  - Query the server with the [OpenAI Vision API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/vision). See examples at [test/srt/test_vision_openai_server.py](test/srt/test_vision_openai_server.py)
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- StableLM
- Command-R
- DBRX
- Grok
- ChatGLM
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- e5-mistral
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#### Use Models From ModelScope
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To use a model from [ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn), set the environment variable SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE.
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export SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE=true
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Launch [Qwen2-7B-Instruct](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/qwen/qwen2-7b-instruct) Server
```
SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE=true python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct --port 30000
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Or start it by docker.
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    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/modelscope:/root/.cache/modelscope \
    --env "SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE=true" \
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    python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct --host 0.0.0.0 --port 30000
```
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- Benchmark a single static batch by running the following command without launching a server. The arguments are the same as for `launch_server.py`.
  Note that this is not a dynamic batching server, so it may run out of memory for a batch size that a real server can handle.
  A real server truncates the prefill into several batches, while this unit test does not. For accurate large batch testing, please use `sglang.bench_serving` instead.
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- Benchmark online serving. Launch a server first and run the following command.
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## Frontend: Structured Generation Language (SGLang)
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### Quick Start
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The example below shows how to use sglang to answer a multi-turn question.
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#### Using Local Models
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@function
def multi_turn_question(s, question_1, question_2):
    s += system("You are a helpful assistant.")
    s += user(question_1)
    s += assistant(gen("answer_1", max_tokens=256))
    s += user(question_2)
    s += assistant(gen("answer_2", max_tokens=256))

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state = multi_turn_question.run(
    question_1="What is the capital of the United States?",
    question_2="List two local attractions.",
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for m in state.messages():
    print(m["role"], ":", m["content"])
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#### Using OpenAI Models
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@function
def multi_turn_question(s, question_1, question_2):
    s += system("You are a helpful assistant.")
    s += user(question_1)
    s += assistant(gen("answer_1", max_tokens=256))
    s += user(question_2)
    s += assistant(gen("answer_2", max_tokens=256))

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state = multi_turn_question.run(
    question_1="What is the capital of the United States?",
    question_2="List two local attractions.",
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for m in state.messages():
    print(m["role"], ":", m["content"])
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#### More Examples
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You can find more examples at [examples/quick_start](examples/frontend_language/quick_start).
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### Language Feature
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To begin with, import sglang.
```python
import sglang as sgl
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`sglang` provides some simple primitives such as `gen`, `select`, `fork`, `image`.
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#### Control Flow
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    s += "To answer this question: " + question + ". "
    s += "I need to use a " + sgl.gen("tool", choices=["calculator", "search engine"]) + ". "
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    if s["tool"] == "calculator":
        s += "The math expression is" + sgl.gen("expression")
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        s += "The key word to search is" + sgl.gen("word")
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Because `sgl.gen` is non-blocking, the for loop below issues two generation calls in parallel.

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```python
@sgl.function
def tip_suggestion(s):
    s += (
        "Here are two tips for staying healthy: "
        "1. Balanced Diet. 2. Regular Exercise.\n\n"
    )

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    for i, f in enumerate(forks):
        f += f"Now, expand tip {i+1} into a paragraph:\n"
        f += sgl.gen(f"detailed_tip", max_tokens=256, stop="\n\n")

    s += "Tip 1:" + forks[0]["detailed_tip"] + "\n"
    s += "Tip 2:" + forks[1]["detailed_tip"] + "\n"
    s += "In summary" + sgl.gen("summary")
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This is only supported for local models.
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    s += "Q: What is the IP address of the Google DNS servers?\n"
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        temperature=0,
        regex=r"((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?\d\d?).){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?\d\d?)",
    )
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    r"""\{\n"""
    + r"""    "name": "[\w\d\s]{1,16}",\n"""
    + r"""    "house": "(Gryffindor|Slytherin|Ravenclaw|Hufflepuff)",\n"""
    + r"""    "blood status": "(Pure-blood|Half-blood|Muggle-born)",\n"""
    + r"""    "occupation": "(student|teacher|auror|ministry of magic|death eater|order of the phoenix)",\n"""
    + r"""    "wand": \{\n"""
    + r"""        "wood": "[\w\d\s]{1,16}",\n"""
    + r"""        "core": "[\w\d\s]{1,16}",\n"""
    + r"""        "length": [0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{0,2}\n"""
    + r"""    \},\n"""
    + r"""    "alive": "(Alive|Deceased)",\n"""
    + r"""    "patronus": "[\w\d\s]{1,16}",\n"""
    + r"""    "bogart": "[\w\d\s]{1,16}"\n"""
    + r"""\}"""
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@sgl.function
def character_gen(s, name):
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def text_qa(s, question):
    s += "Q: " + question + "\n"
    s += "A:" + sgl.gen("answer", stop="\n")

states = text_qa.run_batch(
    [
        {"question": "What is the capital of the United Kingdom?"},
        {"question": "What is the capital of France?"},
        {"question": "What is the capital of Japan?"},
    ],
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def text_qa(s, question):
    s += "Q: " + question + "\n"
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    print(out, end="", flush=True)
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#### Roles

Use `sgl.system``sgl.user` and `sgl.assistant` to set roles when using Chat models. You can also define more complex role prompts using begin and end tokens.

```python
@sgl.function
def chat_example(s):
    s += sgl.system("You are a helpful assistant.")
    # Same as: s += s.system("You are a helpful assistant.")

    with s.user():
        s += "Question: What is the capital of France?"

    s += sgl.assistant_begin()
    s += "Answer: " + sgl.gen(max_tokens=100, stop="\n")
    s += sgl.assistant_end()
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#### Tips and Implementation Details
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- The `choices` argument in `sgl.gen` is implemented by computing the [token-length normalized log probabilities](https://blog.eleuther.ai/multiple-choice-normalization/) of all choices and selecting the one with the highest probability.
- The `regex` argument in `sgl.gen` is implemented through autoregressive decoding with logit bias masking, according to the constraints set by the regex. It is compatible with `temperature=0` and `temperature != 0`.
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## Benchmark And Performance
![8b_throughput](https://lmsys.org/images/blog/sglang_llama3/8b_throughput.svg)
![70b_fp8_throughput](https://lmsys.org/images/blog/sglang_llama3/70b_fp8_throughput.svg)
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Learn more at this [blog](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-07-25-sglang-llama3/).
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## Roadmap
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[Development Roadmap (2024 Q4)](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues/1487)
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## Citation And Acknowledgment
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Please cite our paper, [SGLang: Efficient Execution of Structured Language Model Programs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07104), if you find the project useful.
We also learned from the design and reused code from the following projects: [Guidance](https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance), [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm), [LightLLM](https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm), [FlashInfer](https://github.com/flashinfer-ai/flashinfer), [Outlines](https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines), and [LMQL](https://github.com/eth-sri/lmql).
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