Introduce support for dynamic batching #1662
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The changes in #1580 introduce a new API in
onnxruntime-genai
that enables continuous submission of requests to a generation engine. Internally, the scheduler statically batches these requests, allowing the API to interface seamlessly with models designed for static batching.This pull request lays the groundwork for dynamic request batching by incorporating concepts from vLLM. Specifically, it implements a block-based key-value cache manager.
To support dynamic batching, the underlying model must handle variable-length inputs (as opposed to fixed-size static batches) and leverage the
PagedAttention
contrib-op.