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Why do large language models sometimes experience high latency during inference, and what foundational methods do engineers use to speed up response times?

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Why do large language models sometimes experience high latency during inference, and what foundational methods do engineers use to speed up response times?
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LLM inference latency optimization prefill decode batching quantization speculative decoding PagedAttention foundational methodsGoogle ↗
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vLLM PagedAttention paper continuous batching inference serving FlashAttention paperGoogle ↗
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LLM inference latency optimization prefill decode batching quantization speculative decoding PagedAttention foundational methods Google ↗
vLLM PagedAttention paper continuous batching inference serving FlashAttention paper Google ↗

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LLM inference latency optimization prefill decode batching quantization speculative decoding PagedAttention foundational methods
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vLLM PagedAttention paper continuous batching inference serving FlashAttention paper
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