@grapeot: How does the LLM inference system actually work? The SGLang Omni team recently published a rare article that lays out the complete decision-making chain of a top inference system team. I followed the original text and organized a popular science post, starting from autoregressive decoding, KV cache, continuous batching...
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Based on the SGLang Omni team's internal decision-making article, this post introduces the operating principles of LLM inference systems in an accessible way, starting from basic concepts such as autoregressive decoding, KV cache, and continuous batching.
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