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What is vLLM, and why is it faster than plain Transformers?

vLLM is an open-source engine for serving large language models: it loads a Hugging Face model and exposes it through an OpenAI-compatible API, and it serves many concurrent requests far more efficiently than a plain Transformers generate() loop. On Nodus you can run vLLM yourself on an NVIDIA H100…

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  1. 2026-11-11 19:09 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    What is vLLM, and why is it faster than plain Transformers?

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