fixed requests in batch being actually sequential - https://github.com/meta-llama/synthetic-data-kit/issues/67

[HarshVaragiya]

Fixed the requests to be async and concurrent using aiohttp to work correctly.

Pull Request

Description

• Modified the synthetic-data-kit/models/llm_client.py function LLMClient._vllm_batch_completion to fix the requests not being concurrent. Now the requests are sent via the aiohttp client in parallel and vLLM backend can process it in parallel.

• Modified the init function for the LLMClient class to expose http_request_timeout configuration key for the HTTP Timeout value configuration for all vLLM requests.

Fixes #67

Type of change

Please non-releavant options

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change
• Documentation update
• Configuration update (added the key vllm.http_request_timeout with same default as before)

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[HarshVaragiya]

Just a thought here: Something like a requests queue or something similar to golang channels to keep the vLLM server fed with requests at all times would help improve the overall throughput as even with the batching fixed, there are instances where the GPU is left processing 1 or 2 long requests much slowly when the other requests in the batch are marked done and the next batch is not sent yet by synthetic-data-kit.