[Roadmap] vLLM Roadmap Q1 2024

[zhuohan123]

This document includes the features in vLLM's roadmap for Q1 2024. Please feel free to discuss and contribute to the specific features at related RFC/Issues/PRs and add anything else you'd like to talk about in this issue.

In the future, we will publish our roadmap quarterly and deprecate our old roadmap (#244).

• OSS General
  • Better benchmark scripts and standards (Serving Benchmark Refactoring #2433)
  • Improve documentation
    • CI/CD Testing and release process
    • Make model and kernel tests working on current CI
    • Automate release process
  • Dev experience
    • Explore Apple Silicon via Torch or MLX or llama cpp
    • Cached and parallel build system (Call for Help: Proper Build System (CMake, Bazel, etc).  #2654)
• Frontend
  • Support structured output (contact: @simon-mo)
  • Optimize the performance of the API server
• Scheduling
  • Chunked prefill / dynamic splitfuse ([FEATURE] Implement Dynamic SplitFuse #1562)
  • Speculative decoding ([WIP] Speculative decoding using a draft model #2188, Speculative Decoding #2607, merging plan, contact: @LiuXiaoxuanPKU)
  • Automatic prefix caching ([RFC] Automatic Prefix Caching #2614, contact: @zhuohan123)
  • Disaggregated prefill / splitwise (Add Splitwise: prompt and token phase separation #2472)
• Kernel performance optimization
  • Quantization kernel optimization
    • Support FP8 (RFC: FP8 in vLLM #2461)
  • MoE kernel optimization (DeepseekMoE support with Fused MoE kernel #2453, Fused MOE for Mixtral #2542, and more)
  • H100 performance (Any optimization options for H100? #2107)
  • AMD MI300x Performance
  • MQA kernel ([Performance] Use optimized kernels for MQA/GQA #1880)
    • Port FlashInfer to vLLM (Import FlashInfer: 3x faster PagedAttention than vLLM #2767)
  • Kernel for sampler
• Hardware support
  vLLM team is working with the following hardware vendors:
  • AWS Inferentia ([RFC] Initial Support for AWS Inferentia #1866, Support inference with transformers-neuronx #2569)
  • Google TPU
  • Intel Gaudi
  • Intel GPU/CPU ([Feature][WIP] Prototype of vLLM execution on Intel GPU devices via SYCL. #2378)
• Model support
  • Multi-modal models (Add LLaVA support #775, Support generation from input embedding #1265, add llava model support #2153, feat: Input embeddings #2563)
  • Encoder-decoder models (Adding support for encoder-decoder models, like T5 or BART #187, T5 model support #404)
  • Embedding models (Support embedding models #458, Feature request: Support for embedding models #742)
• Future-proofing vLLM
  • torch.compile support
  • Implement extensible scheduler and memory manager

[sandangel]

Is it possible to support mlx for running inference on Mac devices? That would simplify the local development and running on cloud.

[AguirreNicolas]

As mentioned in #2643, it would be awesome to have vLLM /completions & /chat/completions endpoints both supporting logprobs to run lm-eval-harness.

[PeterXiaTian]

please take attention with "Evaluation of Accelerated and Non-Accelerated Large Model Output",it is very important and make sure they are always same

[jrruethe]

As mentioned in #2643, it would be awesome to have vLLM /completions & /chat/completions endpoints both supporting logprobs to run lm-eval-harness.

Agree 100%, the ability to use lm-eval-harness is very much needed

[casper-hansen]

#2767 I suggest adding this to the roadmap as it's one of the more straight forward optimizations (someone already did the optimization work).

[jalotra]

#2573
this talks about optimising api server Optimize the performance of the API server

[cyc00518]

Please support ARM aarch-64 architecture.

[Tint0ri]

#1253

please consider support streamingllm

[kanseaveg]

Any update for PEFT?

please consider support huggingface peft, thank you. ##1129

[ekazakos]

Would you consider adding support for earlier ROCm versions, e.g. 5.6.1.? Thank you!

[pabl-o-ce]

If is possible exl2 support thank you <3

[hmellor]

#97 should be added to the automating the release process section

[jrruethe]

Also, the ability to use Guidance/Outlines via logit_bias!
And +1 to EXL2 support

[busishengui]

support W8A8

[simon-mo]

Let's migrate out discussion to #3861