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Inside vLLM: How PagedAttention Enables High-Throughput LLM Serving

vLLM's PagedAttention algorithm achieves 24x higher throughput than HuggingFace Transformers by applying OS virtual memory concepts to KV cache management. Here's how the architecture actually works.

Published May 9, 2026
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