Introducing multi-backends (TRT-LLM, vLLM) support for Text Generation Inference
What changed
Since its initial release in 2022, Text-Generation-Inference (TGI) has provided Hugging Face and the AI Community with a performance-focused solution to easily deploy large-language models (LLMs). TGI initially offered an almost no-code solution to load models from the Hugging Face Hub and deploy them in production on NVIDIA GPUs. This work introduced the new Rust trait Backend to interface current inference engine and the one to come.
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Benchmarking Text Generation Inference
- Open-Source Text Generation & LLM Ecosystem at Hugging Face
- Hugging Face Text Generation Inference available for AWS Inferentia2
Sources
- Introducing multi-backends (TRT-LLM, vLLM) support for Text Generation Inference (huggingface-blog)primary