NVIDIA details EPD disaggregation for multimodal model serving
NVIDIA published guidance on encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation, an inference optimization for multimodal models that separates vision encoding from prefill and decode. It is most effective for image-heavy prompts, short-to-medium outputs, and quantized mixture-of-experts models. Using NVIDIA Dynamo, EPD can achieve up to 5x acceleration.
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