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Flide: Accelerating Decision Inference with Exact State Forking
arXiv paper introducing Flide, an exact inference engine for decision models such as Jev. It decouples the logical tree of a decision request from physical execution and reports answers up to 9.5 times faster than vLLM and SGLang.
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Highlights
- Flide is an exact inference engine targeting decision-model workloads such as Jev.
- It answers queries up to 9.5 times faster than vLLM and SGLang in the reported evaluations.
- ForkAttention navigates request dependencies via GPU-resident indices across standard attention and recurrent Gated DeltaNet layers.
- Every query branch is guaranteed to evaluate identically to an isolated forward pass in exact arithmetic.
- Branch topologies live in GPU-resident metadata, and agent histories can resume from checkpoints saved in earlier passes.
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Existing generation-oriented inference engines handle decision workloads poorly, suffering from severe prefix recomputation overheads or distorted output probabilities. Flide decouples the logical tree structure of a decision request from its physical execution inside a single flattened token stream to avoid those costs.
The paper reports that Flide answers queries up to 9.5 times faster than vLLM and SGLang on public hybrid and decision models, while staying closest to a float32 reference in total variation distance among the compared engines.
ForkAttention is the mechanism Flide uses to navigate request dependencies through GPU-resident indices across both standard attention and recurrent Gated DeltaNet layers. It keeps branches addressable from metadata so a shared token stream can serve many query branches.
No. The paper states that Flide guarantees in exact arithmetic that every query branch evaluates identically to an isolated forward pass, so branch outputs are not approximated. It is also reported as closest to a float32 reference in total variation distance.
Yes. By expressing branch topologies in GPU-resident metadata, Flide lets expanding agent histories resume from checkpoints saved in earlier passes rather than recomputing the full prefix.
ForkAttention covers standard attention and recurrent Gated DeltaNet layers. A compact set of pre-recorded execution graphs lets the engine accommodate diverse request mixtures without a separate graph per topology.
It is a research paper describing an engine and its evaluations, not an installable product page. Readers looking for a released binary, license, or deployment guide will not find those details in the abstract material.
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