nano-vllm Documentation

Technical Documentation: GeeeekExplorer/nano-vllm

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Overview (`README.md`) Copy Section

Nano-vLLM

A lightweight vLLM implementation built from scratch.

Key Features Copy Chapter

• 🚀 Fast offline inference - Comparable inference speeds to vLLM
• 📖 Readable codebase - Clean implementation in ~ 1,200 lines of Python code
• ⚡ Optimization Suite - Prefix caching, Tensor Parallelism, Torch compilation, CUDA graph, etc.

Installation Copy Chapter

pip install git+https://github.com/GeeeekExplorer/nano-vllm.git

Model Download Copy Chapter

To download the model weights manually, use the following command:

huggingface-cli download --resume-download Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
  --local-dir ~/huggingface/Qwen3-0.6B/ \
  --local-dir-use-symlinks False

Quick Start Copy Chapter

See example.py for usage. The API mirrors vLLM's interface with minor differences in the LLM.generate method:

from nanovllm import LLM, SamplingParams
llm = LLM("/YOUR/MODEL/PATH", enforce_eager=True, tensor_parallel_size=1)
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, max_tokens=256)
prompts = ["Hello, Nano-vLLM."]
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
outputs[0]["text"]

Benchmark Copy Chapter

See bench.py for benchmark.

Test Configuration:

• Hardware: RTX 4070 Laptop (8GB)
• Model: Qwen3-0.6B
• Total Requests: 256 sequences
• Input Length: Randomly sampled between 100–1024 tokens
• Output Length: Randomly sampled between 100–1024 tokens

Performance Results:

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• Estimated Token Budget: ~528 tokens
• Canonical Reference: https://codewiki.google/github.com/GeeeekExplorer/nano-vllm