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# Attention Backend
## Supporting matrix for different attention backends
| **Backend** | **Page Size > 1** | **Spec Decoding** | **MLA** | **Sliding Window** | **MultiModal** |
|--------------------------|-------------------|-------------------|--------|--------------------|------------|
| **FlashInfer** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **FA3** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **Triton** | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| **Torch Native** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| **FlashMLA** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
## User guide
#### Launch command for different attention backends.
- FlashInfer (Default for Non-Hopper Machines, e.g., A100, A40)
```bash
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --attention-backend flashinfer
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --tp 8 --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 --attention-backend flashinfer --trust-remote-code
```
- FlashAttention 3 (Default for Hopper Machines, e.g., H100, H200, H20)
```bash
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --attention-backend fa3
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --tp 8 --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 --trust-remote-code --attention-backend fa3
```
- Triton
```bash
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --attention-backend triton
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --tp 8 --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 --attention-backend triton --trust-remote-code
```
- Torch Native
```bash
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct --attention-backend torch_native
```
- FlashMLA
```bash
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --tp 8 --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 --attention-backend flashmla --trust-remote-code
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --tp 8 --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 --attention-backend flashmla --kv-cache-dtype fp8_e4m3 --trust-remote-code
```