README.md

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Easy, fast, and cheap LLM serving for everyone
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| <a href="https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"><b>Documentation</b></a> | <a href="https://vllm.ai"><b>Blog</b></a> | <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180"><b>Paper</b></a> | <a href="https://discord.gg/jz7wjKhh6g"><b>Discord</b></a> |

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**The First vLLM Bay Area Meetup (Oct 5th 6pm-8pm PT)**

We are excited to invite you to the first vLLM meetup!
The vLLM team will share recent updates and roadmap.
We will also have vLLM users and contributors coming up to the stage to share their experiences.
Please register [here](https://lu.ma/first-vllm-meetup) and join us!

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*Latest News* 🔥
- [2023/09] We created our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/jz7wjKhh6g)! Join us to discuss vLLM and LLM serving! We will also post the latest announcements and updates there.
- [2023/09] We released our [PagedAttention paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180) on arXiv!
- [2023/08] We would like to express our sincere gratitude to [Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/supporting-the-open-source-ai-community/) (a16z) for providing a generous grant to support the open-source development and research of vLLM.
- [2023/07] Added support for LLaMA-2! You can run and serve 7B/13B/70B LLaMA-2s on vLLM with a single command!
- [2023/06] Serving vLLM On any Cloud with SkyPilot. Check out a 1-click [example](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/blob/master/llm/vllm) to start the vLLM demo, and the [blog post](https://blog.skypilot.co/serving-llm-24x-faster-on-the-cloud-with-vllm-and-skypilot/) for the story behind vLLM development on the clouds.
- [2023/06] We officially released vLLM! FastChat-vLLM integration has powered [LMSYS Vicuna and Chatbot Arena](https://chat.lmsys.org) since mid-April. Check out our [blog post](https://vllm.ai).

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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
- Optimized CUDA kernels

vLLM is flexible and easy to use with:

- Seamless integration with popular Hugging Face models
- High-throughput serving with various decoding algorithms, including *parallel sampling*, *beam search*, and more
- Tensor parallelism support for distributed inference
- Streaming outputs
- OpenAI-compatible API server

vLLM seamlessly supports many Hugging Face models, including the following architectures:

- Aquila (`BAAI/Aquila-7B`, `BAAI/AquilaChat-7B`, etc.)
- Baichuan (`baichuan-inc/Baichuan-7B`, `baichuan-inc/Baichuan-13B-Chat`, etc.)
- BLOOM (`bigscience/bloom`, `bigscience/bloomz`, etc.)
- Falcon (`tiiuae/falcon-7b`, `tiiuae/falcon-40b`, `tiiuae/falcon-rw-7b`, etc.)
- GPT-2 (`gpt2`, `gpt2-xl`, etc.)
- GPT BigCode (`bigcode/starcoder`, `bigcode/gpt_bigcode-santacoder`, etc.)
- GPT-J (`EleutherAI/gpt-j-6b`, `nomic-ai/gpt4all-j`, etc.)
- GPT-NeoX (`EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b`, `databricks/dolly-v2-12b`, `stabilityai/stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b`, etc.)
- InternLM (`internlm/internlm-7b`, `internlm/internlm-chat-7b`, etc.)
- LLaMA & LLaMA-2 (`meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-hf`, `lmsys/vicuna-13b-v1.3`, `young-geng/koala`, `openlm-research/open_llama_13b`, etc.)
- Mistral (`mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1`, `mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1`, etc.)
- MPT (`mosaicml/mpt-7b`, `mosaicml/mpt-30b`, etc.)
- OPT (`facebook/opt-66b`, `facebook/opt-iml-max-30b`, etc.)
- Qwen (`Qwen/Qwen-7B`, `Qwen/Qwen-7B-Chat`, etc.)

Install vLLM with pip or [from source](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html#build-from-source):

```bash
pip install vllm
```

## Getting Started

Visit our [documentation](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to get started.
- [Installation](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html)
- [Quickstart](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/quickstart.html)
- [Supported Models](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/models/supported_models.html)

## Performance

vLLM outperforms Hugging Face Transformers (HF) by up to 24x and Text Generation Inference (TGI) by up to 3.5x, in terms of throughput.
For details, check out our [blog post](https://vllm.ai).

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  <em> Serving throughput when each request asks for 1 output completion. </em>
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  <em> Serving throughput when each request asks for 3 output completions. </em>
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## Contributing

We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations.
Please check out [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for how to get involved.

## Citation

If you use vLLM for your research, please cite our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180):
```bibtex
@inproceedings{kwon2023efficient,
  title={Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention},
  author={Woosuk Kwon and Zhuohan Li and Siyuan Zhuang and Ying Sheng and Lianmin Zheng and Cody Hao Yu and Joseph E. Gonzalez and Hao Zhang and Ion Stoica},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
  year={2023}
}
```