Sumanth Hegde(@sumanthrh):For problem 1, you need to first see the journey of a weight during weight loading in vLLM. The journey is long and arduous: 1. Fuse 2. Relayout 3. Split 4. Shard 5. Copy into Buffer 6. Process 7. Copy into CUDA graph-captured memory Operations 1-5 happen in the layerwise reloading stage in vLLM. Step 6 can involve a bunch of custom transformations like quantization, kernel format padding/striding, etc. We want to leave Step 6 to the vLLM engine and focus on steps 1-5 on the trainer.

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Sumanth Hegde@sumanthrh

2026.08.25 17:06

For problem 1, you need to first see the journey of a weight during weight loading in vLLM. The journey is long and arduous: 1. Fuse 2. Relayout 3. Split 4. Shard 5. Copy into Buffer 6. Process 7. Copy into CUDA graph-captured memory Operations 1-5 happen in the layerwise reloading stage in vLLM. Step 6 can involve a bunch of custom transformations like quantization, kernel format padding/striding, etc. We want to leave Step 6 to the vLLM engine and focus on steps 1-5 on the trainer.