Accelerating LLM Inference: Decoupling Prefill and Decode (PD Disaggregation)
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in dialogue systems, intelligent assistants, and Agent scenarios, the core challenge for inference systems has shifted from “can it run” to “how to run with lower latency, higher throughput, and greater stability”. Against this backdrop, PD Disaggregated (Prefill / Decode Decoupling) has gradually become a key architectural concept in large-scale online inference systems. This article will systematically explain what PD Disaggregated is, why it is needed, and the core advantages it brings to LLM inference systems from the perspective of model inference execution flow, without relying on any specific inference framework....