When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model Serving

NVIDIA Developer explains when to use encode-prefill-decode disaggregation for multimodal model serving. The technique separates vision encoding from prefill and decode stages, benefiting image-heavy prompts and quantized mixture-of-experts models. The post details implementation with NVIDIA Dynamo, citing up to five times speedup for specific workloads.