Comparative Characterization of KV Cache Management Strategies for LLM Inference
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arXiv:2604.05012v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient inference with Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly relies on Key-Value (KV) caches to store previously computed key and value vectors at each layer. These caches are essential to minimize redundant computation during autoregressive token generation, lowering computational complexity from quadratic to linear. However, the growth of KV caches has posed significant system-level challenges, particularly as model sizes increase, context lengths grow, and concurrent requests compete for limited memory resources. Even though se
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.05012v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient inference with Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly relies on Key-Value (KV) caches to store previously computed key and value vectors at each layer.
- These caches are essential to minimize redundant computation during autoregressive token generation, lowering computational complexity from quadratic to linear.
- However, the growth of KV caches has posed significant system-level challenges, particularly as model sizes increase, context lengths grow, and concurrent requests compete for limited memory resources.
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