# Bad Influence story: DigitalOcean describes MOP, an agent that tunes model serving through SGLang trials

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 20:58. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/2465d7e2-aa32-4ba5-8781-7a7e5866148b

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Latest update (11-08 20:58): DigitalOcean's MOP agent runs SGLang trials to find serving recipes

Overview: DigitalOcean's Balaji Varadarajan describes MOP, a self-learning agent that runs SGLang trials to optimize model serving, according to a post by LMSYS Org on X. MOP diagnoses bottlenecks and uses bandit-driven exploration to choose the next experiment for each workload.

The report comes from a repost of Varadarajan's remarks and does not include benchmark results or performance figures.

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1. 11-08 20:58 · LMSYS Org · [DigitalOcean's MOP agent runs SGLang trials to find serving recipes](https://badinfluence.news/items/gjl8d2l52vkdebs0ohkgce5g4)
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