vLLM Adds Bidirectional Attention Support for DeepSeek
August 19, 2026
The vLLM inference runtime has merged support for bidirectional (encoder-only) attention. This enables efficient serving of DeepSeek models within the vLLM ecosystem.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
●
builderYou can now deploy DeepSeek models with optimized inference performance.
●
researcherThis implementation facilitates faster testing of encoder-based architectures.