Transformers Backend Performance Catches Up with vLLM
HowDevelop · x · 2026-07-10
The post states that the modeling backend in transformers is now just as fast as vLLM. The author emphasizes that this means a model only needs to be integrated into transformers once to achieve near-native performance, allowing it to be trained, inferenced, and deployed across different hardware.
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