vLLM Splits Multimodal AI Into Three Stages, Cutting Latency by 13%

vLLM's updated encoder-prefill-decode disaggregation cuts P90 time-to-first-token by 44-47% on multimodal workloads through metadata-only requests and cross-encoder caching.

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2026-11-11 10:03 · AlphaSignal
vLLM Splits Multimodal AI Into Three Stages, Cutting Latency by 13%

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