Posts by Phani Vaddadi
Announcing MONAI 1.0.0 for AMD ROCm: Breakthrough AI Acceleration for Medical Imaging Models on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
- 07 October 2025
Today, AMD is thrilled to announce MONAI 1.0.0 for AMD ROCm, now available to the community as part of the ROCm-LS Early Access release. In this blog you will learn how to use MONAI to load an analyze medical images, and see results from more advanced case studies.
Elevating 3D Scene Rendering with GSplat
- 03 October 2025
In this blog we explore how to use GSplat, a GPU-optimized Python library for training and rendering 3DGS models, on AMD devices. This tutorial will guide you through training a model of a scene from a set of captured images, which will then allow you to render novel views of the scene. We use a port of the original GSplat code that has been optimized for AMD GPUs. The examples used throughout this blog were trained and rendered using an AMD MI300X GPU.
From Ingestion to Inference: RAG Pipelines on AMD GPUs
- 02 October 2025
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a machine learning architecture that enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by combining generation with information retrieval from external sources. It was introduced to address the limitations of traditional LLMs by allowing them to access and utilize up-to-date information from internal and/or external knowledge bases. When a query is received, RAG first retrieves relevant documents or information from its knowledge bases, then uses this retrieved context alongside the query to generate more accurate and informed responses. This approach helps reduce hallucinations (making up information) common in standard LLMs, while also enabling the model to access current information not present in its original training data. RAG has become particularly valuable in enterprise applications, such as customer support systems, research assistants, and documentation tools, where accuracy and verifiable information are crucial.
Enabling FlashInfer on ROCm for Accelerated LLM Serving
- 01 October 2025
FlashInfer is an innovative framework designed to accelerate inference of large language models (LLMs). Given the explosive growth and adoption of models like DeepSeek R1, Llama 3, and Qwen 3, efficient inference is critical to meet the demands of real-world deployment. However, challenges such as GPU memory bottlenecks, throughput limitations, and latency remain significant hurdles for deploying these models at scale.
Coding Agents on AMD GPUs: Fast LLM Pipelines for Developers
- 30 September 2025
The rapid rise of AI-assisted development is transforming how software is built, with coding agents emerging as powerful tools for modern developers. In this blog, we will show you how to deploy coding agents on AMD GPUs using frameworks such as SGLang, vLLM, and llama.cpp, and walk through a practical workflow example: creating a Minesweeper game using Aider.
Exploring Use Cases for Scalable AI: Implementing Ray with ROCm Support for Efficient ML Workflows
- 10 September 2025
In this blog, you will learn how to use Ray to easily scale your AI applications from your laptop to multiple AMD GPUs.
Llama.cpp Meets Instinct: A New Era of Open-Source AI Acceleration
- 09 September 2025
Llama.cpp is an open source implementation of a Large Language Model (LLM) inference framework designed to run efficiently on diverse hardware configurations, both locally and in cloud environments. Its plain C/C++ implementation ensures a dependency-free setup, allowing it to seamlessly support various hardware architectures across CPUs and GPUs. The framework offers a range of quantization options, including 1.5-bit to 8-bit integer quantization, to achieve faster inference and reduced memory usage. Llama.cpp is part of an active open-source community within the AI ecosystem, with over 1200 contributors and almost 4000 releases on its official GitHub repository as of early August, 2025. Designed as a CPU-first C++ library, llama.cpp offers simplicity and easy integration with other programming environments - making it widely compatible and rapidly adopted across diverse platforms, especially among consumer devices.
DGL in the Real World: Running GNNs on Real Use Cases
- 20 August 2025
In our previous blog post, we introduced the Deep Graph Library (DGL) and highlighted how its support on the AMD ROCm platform unlocks scalable, performant graph neural networks (GNNs) on AMD GPUs. That post focused on the why — the growing relevance of graph workloads and what it means to bring that capability to AMD’s accelerated computing ecosystem.
Graph Neural Networks at Scale: DGL with ROCm on AMD Hardware
- 31 July 2025
This blog introduces the Deep Graph Library (DGL) and explores its significance on AMD hardware for enabling scalable, performant graph neural networks.
Accelerating Parallel Programming in Python with Taichi Lang on AMD GPUs
- 31 July 2025
Taichi Lang is an open-source, imperative, parallel programming language for high-performance numerical computation. It is embedded in Python and uses just-in-time (JIT) compiler frameworks (e.g. LLVM) to offload the compute-intensive Python code to the native GPU or CPU instructions. The language has broad applications spanning real-time physical simulation, numerical computation, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, vision and robotics, visual effects in films and games, general-purpose computing, and much more [1].
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback on AMD GPUs with verl and ROCm Integration
- 24 April 2025
In this blog post, we provide an overview of Volcano Engine Reinforcement Learning for LLMs (verl) and discuss its benefits in large-scale reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). We also detail the modifications made to the codebase to optimize verl’s performance on AMD Instinct GPUs. Next, we walk through the process of building the Docker image using a Dockerfile on the user side, along with training scripts tailored for both single-node and multi-node setups. Lastly, we present verl’s performance results, focusing on throughput and convergence accuracy achieved on AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs. Follow this guide to get started with verl on AMD Instinct GPUs and accelerate your RLHF training with ROCm-optimized performance.
Efficient MoE training on AMD ROCm: How-to use Megablocks on AMD GPUs
- 23 March 2025
Training massive deep-learning models requires a balance of efficiency and scalability. In the context of the Transformers architecture, Mixture of Experts (MoE) models are massive machine learning architectures characterized for dividing tasks among multiple specialized sub-networks or “experts”. A gating network determines the expert to which a given input should be routed, enabling the model to handle complex tasks more efficiently by using the specialized capabilities of each expert. This dynamic routing mechanism allows MoE models to scale efficiently, activating only a subset of the network for each input, therefore reducing computational load while maintaining high model capacity.