Enabling KV Caching of Shared Prefix for Diffusion Language Models
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arXiv:2606.07571v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Key-value (KV) caching for shared prefixes is essential for high-throughput large language model (LLM) serving, but it faces critical challenges in emerging diffusion language models (DLMs). In DLMs, bidirectional attention means that updating any token dynamically alters the entire context and its corresponding KVs. Thus, existing caching techniques developed for LLMs, which assume that KVs remain invariant once computed, corrupt the shared prefix KVs. Our experiments show that applying these techniques to DLMs causes model accuracy to
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.07571v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Key-value (KV) caching for shared prefixes is essential for high-throughput large language model (LLM) serving, but it faces critical challenges in emerging diffusion language models (DLMs).
- In DLMs, bidirectional attention means that updating any token dynamically alters the entire context and its corresponding KVs.
- Thus, existing caching techniques developed for LLMs, which assume that KVs remain invariant once computed, corrupt the shared prefix KVs.
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