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### What this PR does / why we need it?
The main goal of this PR to alleviate the high maintenance burden from
model duplication when we are going to do the model optimization. Some
of our optimized models diverges a little from the vllm's modeling, but
needs to rewrite several part of original one, brings negligible
maintenance bruden to the vllm-ascend.In order to solve that, we propose
to leverage `torch.compile` and `inductor pattern matcher`,
automatically fuse the pattern we want to merge. For more details can
refer to the RFC https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/4239
This pr integrates `AddRMSNorm` and the `Quant` operator, which can
improve the inference speed of models using `w8a8 `quantization.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Yes, add new additional_config
### How was this patch tested?
```python
def main():
prompts = [
"The president of the United States is Mr.",
]
# Create a sampling params object.
sampling_params = SamplingParams(max_tokens=100, temperature=0.6, top_k=40, top_p=0.95)
# Create an LLM.
llm = LLM(
model="/root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/Qwen3-8B-W8A8",
# enforce_eager=True,
tensor_parallel_size=1,
trust_remote_code=True,
gpu_memory_utilization=0.7,
quantization="ascend",
)
# Generate texts from the prompts.
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
for output in outputs:
prompt = output.prompt
generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
```
```text
Prompt: 'The president of the United States is Mr.', Generated text: ' Trump. The president of the United States is Mr. Biden. Which of the following statements is correct? \n\nA. Mr. Trump is Mr. Biden. \nB. Mr. Trump is not Mr. Biden. \nC. The president of the United States is not Mr. Trump. \nD. The president of the United States is not Mr. Biden.\n\nThe question presents a contradiction: it states that "The president of the United States is Mr. Trump" and "The president of'
```
- vLLM version: 86e178f7c4d8c3b0eaf3c8e3f810a83f63b90e24
- vLLM main:
86e178f7c4
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Signed-off-by: Icey <1790571317@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: wxsIcey <1790571317@qq.com>
vLLM Ascend Plugin
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Latest News 🔥
- [2025/09] We released the new official version v0.9.1! Please follow the official guide to start deploy large scale Expert Parallelism (EP) on Ascend.
- [2025/08] We hosted the vLLM Beijing Meetup with vLLM and Tencent! Please find the meetup slides here.
- [2025/06] User stories page is now live! It kicks off with LLaMA-Factory/verl//TRL/GPUStack to demonstrate how vLLM Ascend assists Ascend users in enhancing their experience across fine-tuning, evaluation, reinforcement learning (RL), and deployment scenarios.
- [2025/06] Contributors page is now live! All contributions deserve to be recorded, thanks for all contributors.
- [2025/05] We've released first official version v0.7.3! We collaborated with the vLLM community to publish a blog post sharing our practice: Introducing vLLM Hardware Plugin, Best Practice from Ascend NPU.
- [2025/03] We hosted the vLLM Beijing Meetup with vLLM team! Please find the meetup slides here.
- [2025/02] vLLM community officially created vllm-project/vllm-ascend repo for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
- [2024/12] We are working with the vLLM community to support [RFC]: Hardware pluggable.
Overview
vLLM Ascend (vllm-ascend) is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
It is the recommended approach for supporting the Ascend backend within the vLLM community. It adheres to the principles outlined in the [RFC]: Hardware pluggable, providing a hardware-pluggable interface that decouples the integration of the Ascend NPU with vLLM.
By using vLLM Ascend plugin, popular open-source models, including Transformer-like, Mixture-of-Expert, Embedding, Multi-modal LLMs can run seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
Prerequisites
- Hardware: Atlas 800I A2 Inference series, Atlas A2 Training series, Atlas 800I A3 Inference series, Atlas A3 Training series, Atlas 300I Duo (Experimental)
- OS: Linux
- Software:
- Python >= 3.10, < 3.12
- CANN >= 8.3.rc1 (Ascend HDK version refers to here)
- PyTorch == 2.8.0, torch-npu == 2.8.0
- vLLM (the same version as vllm-ascend)
Getting Started
Please use the following recommended versions to get started quickly:
| Version | Release type | Doc |
|---|---|---|
| v0.11.0rc3 | Latest release candidate | QuickStart and Installation for more details |
| v0.9.1 | Latest stable version | QuickStart and Installation for more details |
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING for more details, which is a step-by-step guide to help you set up development environment, build and test.
We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations:
- Please let us know if you encounter a bug by filing an issue
- Please use User forum for usage questions and help.
Branch
vllm-ascend has main branch and dev branch.
- main: main branch，corresponds to the vLLM main branch, and is continuously monitored for quality through Ascend CI.
- vX.Y.Z-dev: development branch, created with part of new releases of vLLM. For example,
v0.7.3-devis the dev branch for vLLMv0.7.3version.
Below is maintained branches:
| Branch | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| main | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM main branch and vLLM v0.11.0 tag |
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Only doc fixed is allowed |
| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.7.3 version, only bug fix is allowed and no new release tag any more. |
| v0.9.1-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.9.1 version |
| v0.11.0-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.11.0 version |
| rfc/feature-name | Maintained | Feature branches for collaboration |
Please refer to Versioning policy for more details.
Weekly Meeting
- vLLM Ascend Weekly Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/vllm-ascend-meeting
- Wednesday, 15:00 - 16:00 (UTC+8, Convert to your timezone)
License
Apache License 2.0, as found in the LICENSE file.