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Why do output tokens cost 5x more than input tokens? (anirudhsathiya.com)
3 points by ani17 55 days ago
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Author here. I wanted to understand what vLLM and llama.cpp are actually doing under the hood, but the codebases are massive. So I wrote a stripped down version from scratch to see the core ideas without the production complexity.

Code: https://github.com/Anirudh171202/WhiteLotus

I think the paged attention part is a bit oversimplified. Nice read otherwise!