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## System architecture
-The runtime is organized around an engine, an orchestrator, stage lifecycle
-management, and independent AR and diffusion stage implementations.
+The overview below adapts the [general vLLM-Omni architecture
+slide](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/111-L8zF7A1j_YI_cR8JsblofdScdRr2f/edit?slide=id.p17#slide=id.p17)
+to the current stage-based runtime. It keeps only the main components:
+entrypoints, the shared `AsyncOmniEngine`, request orchestration, stage
+lifecycle management, AR and diffusion execution modules, model/layer
+operations, connector transport, and multimodal outputs. `AsyncOmniEngine` is
+the composition root between the entrypoints and the orchestrator.
```mermaid
flowchart TB
- entry["Entrypoints
Omni / AsyncOmni / CLI / OpenAI-compatible APIs / duplex WebSocket"]
- engine["AsyncOmniEngine
engine composition root and background loop"]
- orchestrator["Orchestrator
request state, cross-stage routing, correlation, and output ordering"]
- runtime["StageRuntime or DistStageRuntime
placement, replicas, readiness, and lifecycle"]
- clients["StagePool and stage clients
StageEngineCoreClient / StageDiffusionClient"]
- ar["AR stages
vLLM engine, scheduler, worker, and model runner"]
- diffusion["Diffusion stages
DiffusionEngine, scheduler, executor, worker, and pipeline"]
- connector["OmniConnector
payload and KV transport plus synchronization"]
- outputs["MultimodalPayload and OmniRequestOutput
tensors, metadata, streaming chunks, and final artifacts"]
+ subgraph omni["vLLM-Omni"]
+ subgraph entry["Entry points"]
+ api["API server"]
+ client["Omni / AsyncOmni"]
+ end
+ engine["AsyncOmniEngine
composition root and background loop"]
+ orchestrator["Orchestrator
request state and cross-stage routing"]
+ runtime["StageRuntime
placement, replicas, readiness, and lifecycle"]
+ ar["AR module
vLLM engine, scheduler, cache, executor, worker, and model runner"]
+ diffusion["Diffusion module
scheduler, worker, model runner, and pipeline"]
+ ops["Model / layer / ops
attention, parallelism, and quantization"]
+ connector["OmniConnector
payload and KV transport plus synchronization"]
+ outputs["Multimodal outputs
streaming chunks and final artifacts"]
- entry --> engine
- engine --> orchestrator
- engine --> runtime
- runtime --> clients
- clients --> ar
- clients --> diffusion
- ar <--> connector
- diffusion <--> connector
- ar --> outputs
- diffusion --> outputs
- outputs --> entry
+ api --> engine
+ client --> engine
+ engine --> orchestrator
+ engine --> runtime
+ orchestrator --> runtime
+ runtime --> ar
+ runtime --> diffusion
+ ar -. uses .-> ops
+ diffusion -. uses .-> ops
+ ar -. transports through .-> connector
+ diffusion -. transports through .-> connector
+ ar --> outputs
+ diffusion --> outputs
+ end
```
### Key components