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# Engine Arguments

Engine arguments control the behavior of the vLLM engine.

- For [offline inference](../serving/offline_inference.md), they are part of the arguments to [LLM][vllm.LLM] class.
- For [online serving](../serving/openai_compatible_server.md), they are part of the arguments to `vllm serve`.

The engine argument classes, [EngineArgs][vllm.engine.arg_utils.EngineArgs] and [AsyncEngineArgs][vllm.engine.arg_utils.AsyncEngineArgs], are a combination of the configuration classes defined in [vllm.config][]. Therefore, if you are interested in developer documentation, we recommend looking at these configuration classes as they are the source of truth for types, defaults and docstrings.

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## `EngineArgs`

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## `AsyncEngineArgs`

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