Invoice #296361 to vLLM

Contributions to the vllm project

Paid
Invoice #296361
Maintenance and Development
Submitted by guotyApproved by Kaichao You

May 6, 2026

Expense Details

Invoice items
Tested the performance gain of PR https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/37948, throughput improved from 6792 to 6907.
Date: April 1, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Investigated issue https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/38551. This issue can only be triggered after long-running production-level serving and has not been reproduced in benchmarks.
Date: April 5, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Fixed a use-after-free issue in encoder cache flag in PR https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/38907.
Date: April 8, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Added torch.compile support for the qwen3vl encoder in PR https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/40116. There is a gain in unit tests, but the overall end-to-end improvement is not significant.
Date: April 12, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Added ViT CUDA graph support for K2.5 in PR https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/40600, but overall it shows negative gains.
Date: April 15, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Check RFC https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/39766
Date: April 20, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Reviewing PR https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/40695
Date: April 23, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Reviewing PR https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/38330
Date: April 25, 2026
¥1,000.00 CNY

Total amount
¥8,000.00 CNY
Accounted as (USD):
$1,176.18 USD
Additional Information

Collective

vLLM@vllm
Balance:
$211,238.29 USD

payout method

Bank account
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Amount Paid for Expense: $1,176.18

Payment Processor Fee (paid by vLLM): $8.54

Net Amount for vLLM: $1,184.72

Net Amount for guoty: $1,176.18

Collective balance
$211,238.29 USD

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Open Source Collective

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