#Inference Optimization

7 articles

Tech Apr 3, 2026 8 min

Running Lemonade on Strix Halo (EVO-X2): Vulkan Shared Memory Leaks and ROCm Stability

Real-world testing of AMD Lemonade v10.0.1 on Ryzen AI Max+ 395. LLM, image generation, speech recognition, and TTS running simultaneously, NPU Hybrid execution, Vulkan vs ROCm benchmarks, and discovering shared memory leaks.

AMD Local LLM Vulkan ROCm NPU llama.cpp GPU Inference Optimization Benchmark Experiment

Tech Apr 3, 2026 8 min

AMD's Lemonade Local AI Server Bundles GPU, NPU, and Multi-Modal Inference Under One Roof

Lemonade is AMD's open-source local AI server that manages multiple backends like llama.cpp and FastFlowLM across GPU/NPU/CPU, serving text, image, and audio generation through an OpenAI-compatible API.

AMD Local LLM NPU GPU llama.cpp Inference Optimization ROCm Vulkan

Tech Apr 2, 2026 11 min

SwiftLM is a Swift-based LLM inference server that integrates TurboQuant and SSD streaming into Metal shaders

SwiftLM, an Apple Silicon–only MLX inference server, provides a native Metal implementation of TurboQuant V2+V3 hybrid KV‑cache compression and NVMe SSD expert streaming.

Apple Silicon LLM MLX Local LLM Inference optimization KV cache MoE Swift

Tech Mar 31, 2026 6 min

Ollama Moves to MLX Backend, Dramatically Speeds Up Local Inference on Apple Silicon

Ollama 0.19 switches the Apple Silicon backend to MLX, achieving 1,810 tokens/s prefill and 112 tokens/s decode. NVFP4 quantization support and cache improvements landed at the same time.

Ollama MLX Apple Silicon LLM Local LLM Inference Optimization

Tech Mar 25, 2026 17 min

Hypura’s NVMe Streaming and TurboQuant’s KV Cache Quantization

Hypura breaks away from llama.cpp’s mmap design and streams even dense models with a three-tier NVMe placement, while TurboQuant eliminates quantization-constant overhead via a polar-coordinate transform. Includes a design comparison with Flash‑MoE and a review of scenarios where KV‑cache compression actually helps.

LLM Local LLM Quantization Apple Silicon Inference Optimization KV Cache Rust

Tech Mar 6, 2026 10 min

Back-to-back releases of OpenAI GPT-5.3/5.4 and Saguaro-driven inference speedups

A summary of GPT-5.3 Instant’s hallucination reductions and safety regressions, GPT-5.4’s computer use, Tool Search, and 1M-token context, plus Saguaro’s 5× inference speedups.

LLM OpenAI GPT Inference Optimization Speculative Decoding AI Safety Computer Use

Tech Feb 20, 2026 updated 13 min

Accelerating LLM Inference: CDLM and Attention Matching KV Compaction

Two February 2026 papers on reducing inference cost: Together AI’s Consistency DLM (up to 14.5× faster) and MIT/Harvard’s Attention Matching KV compaction (50× compaction in seconds).

AI LLM Inference optimization KV cache Diffusion models