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Engine Arguments
Engine arguments control the behavior of the vLLM engine.
- For offline inference, they are part of the arguments to [LLM][vllm.LLM] class.
- For online serving, they are part of the arguments to
vllm serve.
The engine argument classes, [EngineArgs][vllm.engine.arg_utils.EngineArgs] and [AsyncEngineArgs][vllm.engine.arg_utils.AsyncEngineArgs], are a combination of the configuration classes defined in [vllm.config][]. Therefore, if you are interested in developer documentation, we recommend looking at these configuration classes as they are the source of truth for types, defaults and docstrings.
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EngineArgs
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AsyncEngineArgs
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