vllm-ascend
vllm-project/vllm-ascend
Community maintained hardware plugin for vLLM on Ascend
Overview
The repository provides a hardware plugin specifically tailored for the vLLM (very Large Language Model) project, designed to enhance the performance and efficiency of large language models when running on Huawei's Ascend AI processors.
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Install
git clone https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascendREADME
vLLM Ascend Plugin
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Latest News 🔥
- [2026/05] We released the new official version v0.18.0! Please follow the official guide to start using vLLM Ascend Plugin on Ascend.
- [2026/02] We released the new official version v0.13.0! Please follow the official guide to start using vLLM Ascend Plugin on Ascend.
More
- [2025/12] We released the new official version v0.11.0! Please follow the official guide to start using vLLM Ascend Plugin on Ascend.
- [2025/09] We released the new official version v0.9.1! Please follow the official guide to start deploying large-scale Expert Parallelism (EP) on Ascend.
- [2025/08] We hosted the vLLM Beijing Meetup with vLLM and Tencent! Please find the meetup slides.
- [2025/06] User stories page is now live! It kicks off with LLaMA-Factory/verl/TRL/GPUStack to demonstrate how vLLM Ascend assists Ascend users in enhancing their experience across fine-tuning, evaluation, reinforcement learning (RL), and deployment scenarios.
- [2025/06] Contributors page is now live! All contributions deserve to be recorded, thanks for all contributors.
- [2025/05] We've released the first official version v0.7.3! We collaborated with the vLLM community to publish a blog post sharing our practice: Introducing vLLM Hardware Plugin, Best Practice from Ascend NPU.
- [2025/03] We hosted the vLLM Beijing Meetup with vLLM team! Please find the meetup slides.
- [2025/02] vLLM community officially created vllm-project/vllm-ascend repo for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
- [2024/12] We are working with the vLLM community to support [RFC]: Hardware pluggable.
Overview
vLLM Ascend (vllm-ascend) is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
It is the recommended approach for supporting the Ascend backend within the vLLM community. It adheres to the principles outlined i