vLLM adds sharded weight-transfer engine built on Ray Direct Transport
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Introduced a large-scale sharded weight-transfer engine based on Ray Direct Transport
Why it matters
Multi-node model loading and weight swapping (RL rollouts) are promoted to first-class problems of the serving stack
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