Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend
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vLLM says its upgraded transformers backend can now match or beat many hand-written native vLLM implementations on several Qwen3 setups.
A single flag lets Hugging Face models run in vLLM while still using its parallelism and inference optimizations.
The result lowers the need for custom vLLM model ports and makes high-performance serving easier for more architectures.


