[CI/Build] Add nightly benchmarking for tgi, tensorrt-llm and lmdeploy

[KuntaiDu]

Following PR #5073, this PR aims to compare vllm and alternatives (like tgi, tensorrt-llm and lmdeploy --- feel free to comment if you feel there are also other alternatives we need to benchmark) ON THE SAME WORKLOAD (the same as PR #5073) USING THE SAME BENCHMARKING SCRIPT (benchmark_serving.py).

For fair comparison, we will run vllm and alternatives in their corresponding official docker image.

This will be a nightly benchmark as running all alternatives on all workloads can be pretty time-consuming.

TODO lists:

• implement initial version of one-click runnable benchmarking script for tgi
• implement initial version of one-click runnable benchmarking script for tensorrt-llm
• implement initial version of one-click runnable benchmarking script for lmdeploy
• adjust these scripts so that they parse the workload from nightly-tests.json
• integrate it inside the CI system
• adjust the presentation of the benchmarking result (in the format of a markdown file)

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[KuntaiDu]

I have finished an initial implementation on lmdeploy and tgi, which has entry point run-nightly-suite.sh that can parses nightly-tests.json and generate benchmarking results. This script is one-click runnable in the official docker of lmdeploy and tgi. I will continue on trt.

[simon-mo]

This looks good. One thing I couldn't find a single place to find all the workload description (i.e. where is the parameters for benchmark serving which should be identical for all backends).

[zhyncs]

Hi @KuntaiDu Nice work! May we consider adding benchmarks for glm-4-9b-chat and Qwen2-72B-Instruct? They are currently the SOTA models in CJK native support. If OK and needed, I am happy to help. Thanks. cc @simon-mo

[KuntaiDu]

Hi @KuntaiDu Nice work! May we consider adding benchmarks for glm-4-9b-chat and Qwen2-72B-Instruct? They are currently the SOTA models in CJK native support. If OK and needed, I am happy to help. Thanks. cc @simon-mo

Sorry for the late reply (github somehow did not remind me of this message). Feel free to raise a new PR to do this!