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view post Post 59 ā” FlashHead: Fast LM Head Inference - Now a Simple vLLM Plugin flash-head replaces the dense LM head with a two-stage retrieval pipeline - up to 2x inference speedup, training-free. Previously required custom Docker images; now it's just: pip install flash-head vllm serve embedl/Qwen3-1.7B-FlashHead-W4A16 ⨠The plugin activates automatically via vLLM's vllm.general_plugins entry point. No source patches, no custom imports. š§© Supported models (full collection): Qwen Qwen3, meta-llama Llama3, google Gemma3, nvidia Cosmos-Reason2 - BF16 and W4A16 variants.https://huggingface.co/collections/embedl/flashhead š embedl/Edge-Inference-Benchmarks š§ Benchmark it yourself: vllm bench latency --model embedl/Qwen3-1.7B-FlashHead-W4A16 --batch-size 1 # Baseline comparison FLASHHEAD_ENABLED=0 vllm bench latency --model embedl/Qwen3-1.7B-FlashHead-W4A16 --batch-size 1FlashHead shines at low batch sizes; the typical real-time / on-device use case. š See translation š 1 1 + Reply
FlashHead Collection Efficient Drop-In Replacement for the Classification Head in Language Model Inference. https://github.com/embedl/flash-head ⢠30 items ⢠Updated 1 day ago ⢠1