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Nano-vLLM

A progressive study of the nano-vLLM inference engine — from the naive autoregressive loop through KV cache, paging, scheduling, kernels, and scale.

1. Unit 1 The Naive Autoregressive Loop Phase A: Foundations Published

   What generate() really does at the lowest level — one forward pass per token — and where the naive loop wastes work, setting up the KV cache.

2. Unit 2 KV cache & the prefill/decode split Phase A: Foundations Coming soon
3. Unit 3 The transformer forward, inference-style Phase B: The model Coming soon
4. Unit 4 Paged KV cache & the block manager Phase C: Memory Coming soon
5. Unit 5 Prefix caching Phase C: Memory Coming soon
6. Unit 6 The scheduler & continuous batching Phase D: Scheduling Coming soon
7. Unit 7 Chunked prefill Phase D: Scheduling Coming soon
8. Unit 8 The Context bridge & preparing tensors Phase E: Execution Coming soon
9. Unit 9 The paged attention kernels Phase E: Execution Coming soon
10. Unit 10 CUDA graphs & torch.compile Phase F: Scale & GPU Coming soon
11. Unit 11 Tensor parallelism Phase F: Scale & GPU Coming soon

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