Dipika Sikka

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Speculators v0.5.0: DFlash support and online training

Helen Zhao +2

Speculators v0.5.0 introduces DFlash support, enabling single-pass draft token generation with block diffusion for more efficient speculative decoding workflows. The release also adds unified online and offline training through vLLM’s native hidden states extraction system, improving training flexibility, version stability, and production readiness.

LLM Compressor v0.10.0 is here
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LLM Compressor v0.10: Faster compression with distributed GPTQ

Kyle Sayers +2

LLM Compressor v0.10 introduces Distributed Data Parallel (DDP) for faster compression, memory management, and advanced quantization formats. Make model compression workflows more efficient for large language models.

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LLM Compressor 0.7.0 release recap

Dipika Sikka +3

LLM Compressor 0.7.0 brings Hadamard transforms for better accuracy, mixed-precision FP4/FP8, and calibration-free block quantization for efficient compression.