Article "How Long Prompts Block Other Requests - Optimizing LLM Performance"

Serving LLMs for over 50 applications, thereby consuming more than 100 million tokens while generating over ten millions tokens per day, requires us to carefully tune our request processing.

In the third and final article of our series on LLM performance, our colleague Benjamin Merkel addresses two critical issues: long prompts blocking the queue and parallel prefills slowing down the generation of tokens. He also explains strategies on how to deal with these challenges in order to significantly reduce LLM latency and improve responsiveness.

Read the full article “How Long Prompts Block Other Requests” here on Hugging Face.