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The prefill stage is responsible for processing the input prompt, completing the KV cache computation for all input tokens in one pass; the decode stage generates new tokens one by one.
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UnverifiedThe prefill phase requires processing all input tokens at once and is a compute-intensive operation, whereas the decode phase generates only one token per step and is a memory-bandwidth-intensive operation.78% similarUnverifiedThe prefill phase processes the complete input context, computes attention for all input tokens, and generates the KV cache; it is a compute-intensive operation whose time consumption is strongly correlated with input length.78% similarVerifiedThe Prefill phase is a compute-intensive task with high demands on compute power; the Decode phase is a memory-access-intensive task that is sensitive to GPU memory bandwidth.74% similarUnverifiedMainstream inference servers usually adopt techniques such as continuous batching and chunked prefill, dynamically batching requests together and interleaving prefill and decode to improve GPU utilization.71% similarUnverifiedDue to the autoregressive nature, each decode step requires accessing the KV Cache of all previous tokens.71% similar
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