vLLM AFD plugin enables disaggregated MoE inference
The new experimental vLLM Attention-FFN Disaggregation (AFD) Plugin separates inference workloads into independently scalable services by decoupling Attention from Feed-Forward Network (FFN) layers. Instead of treating inference as a monolithic task, this plugin allows infrastructure to scale memory-heavy Attention processing and compute-heavy FFN execution separately, optimizing hardware efficiency for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models while maintaining vLLM's native serving interface.
Decoupling attention and FFN execution is a major leap forward in scaling Mixture-of-Experts inference efficiently across modern hardware clusters.
- –Enables targeted resource allocation by separating memory-bound KV-cache attention tasks from compute-bound expert execution.
- –Prevents hardware bottlenecks and improves throughput in heterogenous serving environments.
- –Integrates cleanly into vLLM without breaking existing request lifecycles or OpenAI-compatible APIs.
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2026-07-24
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2026-07-24
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