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vLLM push-based KV transfer cuts TTFT up to 3x

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A new push-based NIXL connector in vLLM moves post-prefill KV transfer coordination off the critical path, which AWS says cuts time-to-first-token by up to 3x for disaggregated inference. The claim comes from AWS's own blog post; the coverage gives no benchmark details or conditions under which the 3x figure applies.

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Oct 19
  1. AWS Machine Learning Blog
    Push-based KV transfer in vLLM cuts TTFT up to 3x for disaggregated inference

    A new push-based NIXL connector in vLLM moves post-prefill KV transfer coordination off the critical path.

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