vLLM Adds MTP Draft Support to Transformers Backend
October 28, 2026
The vLLM inference runtime has added support for Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafts in its Transformers modeling backend. This integration enables faster inference speeds for models supporting speculative decoding via MTP.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can now achieve lower latency for MTP-capable models using the vLLM runtime.