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Modal Blog·· 2026-05-04AI score36

Modal boosts SGLang multimodal inference over 10% with a Python dict cache

Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dictionary

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Modal profiled SGLang's scheduler on a multimodal workload and replaced repeated CUDA IPC handle book-keeping with a simple Python dict cache, lifting throughput 16.2% and cutting mean TTFT 13.2% and TPOT 17.2% on Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct on H100s. The fix is merged in SGLang v0.5.10.

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