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vLLM project releases Humming, an open-source GEMM kernel library for quantized models

According to a post on X by @EveryDevAi, the vLLM project has released Humming, a JIT-compiled kernel library for dense and mixture-of-experts matrix multiplication on NVIDIA GPUs. The library is open source and needs only PyTorch and NVCC. The post says it supports GPUs from SM75 up and handles sub-8-bit weights with FP16, BF16, FP8, FP4, INT8 or INT4 activations. These details come from the post's description of the release.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-03T01:35:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-03T06:25:03+00:00
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According to a post on X by @EveryDevAi, the vLLM project has released Humming, a JIT-compiled kernel library for dense and mixture-of-experts matrix multiplication on NVIDIA GPUs. The library is open source and needs only PyTorch and NVCC. The post says it supports GPUs from SM75 up and handles sub-8-bit weights with FP16, BF16, FP8, FP4, INT8 or INT4 activations. These details come from the post's description of the release.

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Humming is a JIT-compiled kernel library from the vLLM project for dense and mixture-of-experts matrix multiplication on NVIDIA GPUs. It is open source, needs only PyTorch and NVCC, supports GPUs from SM75 up, and handles sub-8-bit weights with FP16, BF16, FP8, FP4, INT8 or INT4 activations. Why it matters: Teams...

According to the post, teams serving quantized models could replace separate per-format kernels with one library. The change would mainly affect engineers running quantized inference on NVIDIA GPUs who currently maintain several kernel paths. Watch for official project documentation and performance results to see how the library compares in practice.

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