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+# Features
+
+Use this section to choose and configure vLLM-Omni runtime and optimization
+features. The navigation follows the active
+[Feature Design](../design/index.md#feature-design-documents) taxonomy whenever
+an implementation contract has a user-facing workflow.
+
+!!! note "User guides, design documents, and recipes"
+
+    User guides explain how to enable a feature and where it is supported.
+    Design documents define internal contracts and do not, by themselves,
+    imply general or production support. For model-specific launch flags and
+    hardware requirements, use the linked examples and validated recipes from
+    [Supported Models](../models/supported_models.md).
+
+## Runtime and Stage Execution
+
+| Goal | User guide | Related design contract |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Choose serial, batched, step-wise, or streaming diffusion execution | [Execution Modes and Streaming](../user_guide/diffusion/execution_modes.md) | [Diffusion Continuous Batching](../design/feature/diffusion_continuous_batching.md), [Async Diffusion Output](../design/feature/async_diffusion_output.md) |
+| Reclaim stage memory without restarting the server | [Sleep Mode](sleep_mode.md) | Runtime lifecycle behavior is documented in the user guide |
+
+Some runtime designs are deliberately not promoted as standalone User Guide
+features yet:
+
+- [Disaggregated Inference](../design/feature/disaggregated_inference.md) and
+  [OmniConnector implementations](../design/index.md#communication) describe
+  topology and transport contracts. Practical deployment configuration remains
+  under [Pipeline and deploy configurations](../configuration/stage_configs.md).
+- [Async Chunk](../design/feature/async_chunk.md) and
+  [Async Omni Output Materialization](../design/feature/omni_async_output_materialization.md)
+  are model- and pipeline-dependent. Use the selected model's deploy
+  configuration and recipe for the supported settings.
+- [Automatic Prefix Caching](../design/feature/prefix_caching.md) remains a
+  design-level contract until its user-facing configuration and compatibility
+  surface is consolidated.
+
+## Diffusion Acceleration
+
+| Goal | User guide | Related design contract |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Compare acceleration methods and supported combinations | [Overview](../user_guide/diffusion_features.md), [Feature Compatibility](../user_guide/feature_compatibility.md) | [Diffusion acceleration designs](../design/index.md#diffusion-acceleration) |
+| Reduce model memory with lower-precision weights | [Quantization](../user_guide/quantization/overview.md) | [Quantization](../design/feature/quantization.md) |
+| Move weights between host and device memory | [CPU Offloading](../user_guide/diffusion/cpu_offload.md) | [Distributed Layerwise Offload](../design/feature/distributed_layerwise_offload.md) |
+| Reuse denoising computation | [Cache Acceleration](../user_guide/diffusion/cache_acceleration/cache_dit.md) | [Cache-DiT](../design/feature/cache_dit.md), [TeaCache](../design/feature/teacache.md) |
+| Distribute diffusion work across devices | [Parallelism](../user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/overview.md) | [Parallelism designs](../design/index.md#parallelism) |
+| Select dense, sparse, or quantized attention paths | [Attention Backends](../user_guide/diffusion/attention_backends.md) | [Skip-Softmax](../design/feature/skip_softmax.md) |
+| Compile repeated diffusion regions | [Regional Compilation](../user_guide/diffusion/regional_compilation.md) | User-facing optimization guide |
+| Add generated video frames | [Frame Interpolation](../user_guide/diffusion/frame_interpolation.md) | User-facing extension guide |
+| Reduce diffusion model startup time | [Startup and Loading](../user_guide/diffusion/startup_and_loading.md) | User-facing loading guide |
+| Apply diffusion adapters | [LoRA](../user_guide/diffusion/lora.md) | User-facing extension guide |
+
+The [Pipeline Parallelism guide](../user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/pipeline_parallel.md)
+remains available by direct link, but it is not promoted in the primary User
+Guide navigation until its user-facing support and placement are settled.
+
+## Experimental
+
+[Session State Manager](session_state_manager.md) is opt-in and experimental.
+Its APIs and compatibility may change without notice.