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34 changes: 18 additions & 16 deletions docs/features/README.md
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| Feature | [CP][chunked-prefill] | [APC](automatic_prefix_caching.md) | [LoRA](lora.md) | [SD](spec_decode.md) | CUDA graph | [pooling](../models/pooling_models.md) | <abbr title="Encoder-Decoder Models">enc-dec</abbr> | <abbr title="Logprobs">logP</abbr> | <abbr title="Prompt Logprobs">prmpt logP</abbr> | <abbr title="Async Output Processing">async output</abbr> | multi-step | <abbr title="Multimodal Inputs">mm</abbr> | best-of | beam-search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [CP][chunked-prefill] | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| [APC](automatic_prefix_caching.md) | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| [LoRA](lora.md) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | | |
| [SD](spec_decode.md) | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | |
| CUDA graph | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | |
| [pooling](../models/pooling_models.md) | 🟠\* | 🟠\* | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Encoder-Decoder Models">enc-dec</abbr> | ❌ | [❌](gh-issue:7366) | ❌ | [❌](gh-issue:7366) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Logprobs">logP</abbr> | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Prompt Logprobs">prmpt logP</abbr> | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Async Output Processing">async output</abbr> | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | |
| multi-step | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | |
| [mm](multimodal_inputs.md) | ✅ | ✅ | [🟠](gh-pr:4194)<sup>^</sup> | ❔ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❔ | ✅ | | |
| best-of | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [❌](gh-issue:6137) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❔ | [❌](gh-issue:7968) | ✅ | ✅ | |
| beam-search | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [❌](gh-issue:6137) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❔ | [❌](gh-issue:7968) | ❔ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Feature | [CP][chunked-prefill] | [APC](automatic_prefix_caching.md) | [LoRA](lora.md) | [SD](spec_decode.md) | CUDA graph | [pooling](../models/pooling_models.md) | <abbr title="Encoder-Decoder Models">enc-dec</abbr> | <abbr title="Logprobs">logP</abbr> | <abbr title="Prompt Logprobs">prmpt logP</abbr> | <abbr title="Async Output Processing">async output</abbr> | multi-step | <abbr title="Multimodal Inputs">mm</abbr> | best-of | beam-search | [prompt-embeds](prompt_embeds.md) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [CP][chunked-prefill] | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| [APC](automatic_prefix_caching.md) | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| [LoRA](lora.md) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| [SD](spec_decode.md) | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | | |
| CUDA graph | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | | |
| [pooling](../models/pooling_models.md) | 🟠\* | 🟠\* | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Encoder-Decoder Models">enc-dec</abbr> | ❌ | [❌](gh-issue:7366) | ❌ | [❌](gh-issue:7366) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Logprobs">logP</abbr> | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Prompt Logprobs">prmpt logP</abbr> | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | | |
| <abbr title="Async Output Processing">async output</abbr> | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | | |
| multi-step | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | | |
| [mm](multimodal_inputs.md) | ✅ | ✅ | [🟠](gh-pr:4194)<sup>^</sup> | ❔ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❔ | ✅ | | | |
| best-of | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [❌](gh-issue:6137) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❔ | [❌](gh-issue:7968) | ✅ | ✅ | | |
| beam-search | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [❌](gh-issue:6137) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❔ | [❌](gh-issue:7968) | ❔ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| [prompt-embeds](prompt_embeds.md) | ✅ | [❌](gh-issue:25096) | ? | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ? | ? | ❌ | ? | ? | ✅ |

\* Chunked prefill and prefix caching are only applicable to last-token pooling.
<sup>^</sup> LoRA is only applicable to the language backbone of multimodal models.
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| multi-step | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [❌](gh-issue:8477) | ✅ | ❌ |
| best-of | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| beam-search | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| [prompt-embeds](prompt_embeds.md) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ? | [❌](gh-issue:25097) |
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The traditional flow of text data for a Large Language Model goes from text to token ids (via a tokenizer) then from token ids to prompt embeddings. For a traditional decoder-only model (such as meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct), this step of converting token ids to prompt embeddings happens via a look-up from a learned embedding matrix, but the model is not limited to processing only the embeddings corresponding to its token vocabulary.

!!! note
Prompt embeddings are currently only supported in the v0 engine.

## Offline Inference

To input multi-modal data, follow this schema in [vllm.inputs.EmbedsPrompt][]:
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