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Hugging Face Blog·· 2026-07-08SelectedAI score65

Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend

Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend

AI introduction

Hugging Face announced that vLLM's transformers modeling backend now achieves equal or higher throughput than vLLM's hand-written native implementations for many LLM architectures.

Why it matters

Official benchmarks show the transformers backend matches or exceeds vLLM's native throughput on three Qwen3 configurations, so model authors no longer need to write custom ports.

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