vLLM serves Reflection's 501B Beam on day 0, decode latency cut 2.71x
vLLM Blog · rss · 2026-10-16
vLLM announced day-0 support for Reflection's Beam-1.0, a MoE model with 501B total and 23B active parameters.
Key optimizations include:
- Agent-driven optimization that cut decode latency by 2.71x
- DFlash2 speculative decoding with adaptive verification
This gives teams wanting to self-host Beam out-of-the-box inference support.
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