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Intel Releases LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3 With New LLM Model Support

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Intel today released the LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3 update with expanding the array of large language models that can run on Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards with this Docker-based stack for deploying vLLM.

The new Intel llm-scaler-vllm 1.3 release via Docker and GitHub adds support for eight new models on capable Intel Arc Graphics hardware: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking, InternVL3.5-30B-A3B, DeepSeek-OCR,PaddleOCR-VL, Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 and openai/whisper-large-v3.

In addition to those models, there is support for PaddleOCR models and GLM-4.6v-Flash support noted separately. There is also now sym_int4 support now for Qwen3-30B-A3B on TP 4/8 and Qwen3-235B-A22B on TP 16.

The LLM-Scaler-vLLM stack has upgraded against vLLM 0.11.1 and PyTorch 2.9. With the vLLM upgrade they have also enabled CPU KV cache offload, speculative decoding support with two more methods, experimental FP8 KV cache, and other enhancements.

Plus there are more bug fixes and other improvements with Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3. Downloads and all the details via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/intel/llm-scaler/releases/tag/vllm-1.3



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also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a
French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk
white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her
boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the
bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad
rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished
there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...]
"Stop the car," the girl said.
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woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an
arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget.
"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway
belle's for thee."
The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie.
Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey
onto my granola and faced a new day.
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