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Merge GPU-only sparse attention support from tzj/minference-exp branch: **GPU-only mode additions:** - Add compute_prefill/compute_decode methods to SparsePolicy base class - Add GPU-only attention routing in attention.py - Add alloc_policy_metadata() for pre-allocating GQA buffers - Add XAttention + BSA sparse attention for GPU-only prefill - Add kvcache_manager to set_context() for policy access **bench.py enhancements:** - Add --model argument for configurable model path - Add --policy argument (full, xattn) for sparse policy selection - Add --enable-policy flag for FullAttentionPolicy routing - Add --enforce-eager option to disable CUDA graphs - Add --gpu-util option for GPU memory utilization **Documentation:** - Add gpu_only_xattn_guide.md with performance analysis - Add gpu_only_sparse_integration.md baseline document - Add gpu-vram-requirement.md rule for GPU-only mode Both CPU offload and GPU-only paths are preserved and functional. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nano-vLLM
A lightweight vLLM implementation built from scratch.
Key Features
- 🚀 Fast offline inference - Comparable inference speeds to vLLM
- 📖 Readable codebase - Clean implementation in ~ 1,200 lines of Python code
- ⚡ Optimization Suite - Prefix caching, Tensor Parallelism, Torch compilation, CUDA graph, etc.
Installation
pip install git+https://github.com/GeeeekExplorer/nano-vllm.git
Model Download
To download the model weights manually, use the following command:
huggingface-cli download --resume-download Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
--local-dir ~/huggingface/Qwen3-0.6B/ \
--local-dir-use-symlinks False
Quick Start
See example.py for usage. The API mirrors vLLM's interface with minor differences in the LLM.generate method:
from nanovllm import LLM, SamplingParams
llm = LLM("/YOUR/MODEL/PATH", enforce_eager=True, tensor_parallel_size=1)
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, max_tokens=256)
prompts = ["Hello, Nano-vLLM."]
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
outputs[0]["text"]
Benchmark
See bench.py for benchmark.
Test Configuration:
- Hardware: RTX 4070 Laptop (8GB)
- Model: Qwen3-0.6B
- Total Requests: 256 sequences
- Input Length: Randomly sampled between 100–1024 tokens
- Output Length: Randomly sampled between 100–1024 tokens
Performance Results:
| Inference Engine | Output Tokens | Time (s) | Throughput (tokens/s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| vLLM | 133,966 | 98.37 | 1361.84 |
| Nano-vLLM | 133,966 | 93.41 | 1434.13 |
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