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Inference Serving Systems

Topic hub for LLM serving runtimes, cache systems, and deployment pipelines.

Updated October 10, 2026Confidence: High

Inference Serving Systems

  • vLLM — GPU serving architecture, scheduling, caches, deployment, and model paths.
  • vLLM Ascend — Ascend NPU integration and model-specific execution paths.
  • SGLang — Structured language-model programming and serving.
  • Sarathi — Chunked-prefill scheduling for efficient inference.
  • KV Cache Optimization — Eviction, compression, hybrid-memory, and alternative-attention strategies.
  • KVSwap — Disk-aware KV-cache offloading for on-device inference.
  • InferenceX — Continuous inference benchmark and execution pipeline.
  • DeepSeek Integrations — Framework-level DeepSeek implementation readings.
  • AgentX / InferenceX v3 — Agentic inference workload and hardware comparison.