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1. Improve inference speed and usability for deepsek models with NPU
graph mode.
2. Modify some codes to adapt to CANN 8.1.RC1.beta1.
3. Add a switch for NPU graph mode and its cache.
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This PR provides an experimental configuration to enable NPU graph mode
for Deepseek models. User can set
additional_config={'enable_graph_mode': True} to try this feature. Note
that this feature currently only supports for V0 engine.
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This patch was tested with the newest torch_npu 2.5.1
(https://pypi.org/project/torch-npu/#files) and CANN 8.1.RC1.beta1
toolkit&nnal&kernels
(https://www.hiascend.com/developer/download/community/result?module=cann)
released in 25/30 April.
Signed-off-by: linfeng-yuan <1102311262@qq.com>
vLLM Ascend Plugin
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Latest News 🔥
- [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
- OS: Linux
- Software:
- Python >= 3.9, < 3.12
- CANN >= 8.0.0
- PyTorch >= 2.5.1, torch-npu >= 2.5.1
- vLLM (the same version as vllm-ascend)
Getting Started
Please refer to 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 0.8.x branch |
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Only doc fixed is allowed |
| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.7.3 version |
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.