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LLM Inference Optimization and Benchmarking

BACKGROUND
3 SIGNALSFIRST DETECTED 31 March 2026UPDATED 16 October 2026
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29 Apr
llama.cpp benchmark native vs. non native NVFP4 on Blackwell - summary

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I tested two llama.cpp builds on the same <strong>Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4</strong> model.</p> <p><code>llama-bench</code> reports the model label as

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
2 May
TurboQuant in Practice

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><em>A deep dive into implementing TurboQuant, validating its claims, and understanding where theory meets real-world systems</em></p> <h1>1.

OPINION · WHERE · ArtificialInteligenceOPEN STORY
6 May
Qwen3.6-27B with MTP grafted on Unsloth UD XL: 2.5x throughput via unmerged llama.cpp PR

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey everyone, I've been working on getting Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) working with quantized GGUFs for Qwen3-27B and the results are pretty

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
26 Mar
1 million tokens per second from a single cluster, what that actually means

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Got Qwen 3.5 27B to 1,103,941 tok/s on 12 nodes with 96 B200 GPUs.</p> <p>At that rate you process 50,000 insurance policy documents in hours

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
24 Mar
Delta-KV for llama.cpp: near-lossless 4-bit KV cache on Llama 70B

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I applied video compression to LLM inference and got <strong>10,000x less quantization error at the same storage cost</strong></p> <p><a

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
8 Apr
Napkin math: KV cache for Llama 3.1 at 128K context is ~64GB per decode request, and that's after GQA

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Every output token the model generates requires reading the entire KV cache from High Bandwidth Memory.</p> <p>Here's what that actually looks

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
5 May
MTP on strix halo with llama.cpp (PR #22673)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t4uj9h/mtp_on_strix_halo_with_llamacpp_pr_22673/"> <img alt="MTP on strix halo with llama.cpp (PR #22673)"

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
24 Mar
FlashAttention-4: 1613 TFLOPs/s, 2.7x faster than Triton, written in Python. What it means for inference.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Wrote a deep dive on <strong>FlashAttention-4 (03/05/2026)</strong> that's relevant for anyone thinking about inference performance.</p>

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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