Leverage incremental output between the inference and async engines to improve performance #4054
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Motivation
The current transport protocol between the async_engine and the inference engine causes 5+% performance degradation when
logprobsare requested. This is because the protocol transmits the entire cumulative sequence of generated tokens in each iteration, resulting in redundant data transfer and processing latency.Modification
To eliminate this redundancy, the protocol has been modified to transmit only the newly generated tokens and their associated metadata (e.g., logprobs) in each iteration.
Benchmark on H800
Serve a model by pytorch engine:
Benchmarked the /generate endpoint using https://gist.github.com/irexyc/add84faadbfdc229f28c7da3cf0d3ce8
Before:
After: