Fast and Expressive LLM Inference with RadixAttention and SGLang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized for complex tasks that require multiple chained generation calls, advanced prompting techniques, control flow, and interaction with external environments. However, there is a notable deficiency in efficient systems for programming and executing these applications. To address this gap, we introduce SGLang, a Structured Generation Language for LLMs.

DeepSeek MoE

DeepSeekMoE 16B is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 16.4B parameters. It employs an innovative MoE architecture, which involves two principal strategies: fine-grained expert segmentation and shared experts isolation. It is trained from scratch on 2T English and Chinese tokens, and exhibits comparable performance with DeepSeek 7B and LLaMA2 7B, with only about 40% of computations.

Reasoning with Foundation Models

We organize the current foundation models into three categories: language foundation models, vision foundation models, and multimodal foundation models. Further, we elaborate the foundation models in reasoning tasks, including commonsense, mathematical, logical, causal, visual, audio, multimodal, agent reasoning, etc. Reasoning techniques, including pre-training, fine-tuning, alignment training, mixture of experts, in-context learning, and autonomous agent, are also summarized.

DeepSeek LLM

Introducing DeepSeek LLM, an advanced language model comprising 67 billion parameters. It has been trained from scratch on a vast dataset of 2 trillion tokens in both English and Chinese. In order to foster research, we have made DeepSeek LLM 7B/67B Base and DeepSeek LLM 7B/67B Chat open source for the research community.

Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding

We introduce lookahead decoding, a new, exact, and parallel decoding algorithm to accelerate LLM inference. Lookahead decoding breaks the sequential dependency in autoregressive decoding by concurrently extracting and verifying n-grams directly with the LLM, utilizing the Jacobi iteration method. Lookahead decoding functions without the need for a draft model or a data store.

S-LoRA: Serving Thousands of Concurrent LoRA Adapters

We introduce S-LoRA (code), a system designed for the scalable serving of many LoRA adapters. S-LoRA adopts the idea of Unified Paging for KV cache and adapter weights to reduce memory fragmentation. Heterogeneous Batching of LoRA computation with different ranks leveraging optimized custom CUDA kernels which are aligned with the memory pool design.

vLLM v.s. DeepSpeed-FastGen

vLLM matches DeepSpeed-FastGen’s speed in common scenarios and surpasses it when handling longer outputs. DeepSpeed-FastGen only outperforms vLLM in scenarios with long prompts and short outputs, due to its Dynamic SplitFuse optimization. This optimization is on vLLM’s roadmap. vLLM’s mission is to build the fastest and easiest-to-use open-source LLM inference and serving engine.

DeepSpeed-FastGen: High-throughput Text Generation for LLMs via MII and DeepSpeed-Inference

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA have emerged as a dominant workload in serving a wide range of applications infused with AI at every level. From general chat models to document summarization, and from autonomous driving to copilots at every layer of the software stack, the demand to deploy and serve these models at scale has skyrocketed.