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In large language model inference, the Transformer's self-attention mechanism needs to store Key and Value vectors for each processed token, and this batch of storage is the KV Cache.
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UnverifiedThe Transformer's causal attention mechanism dictates that each token's KV is related only to all the tokens before it, so prompts with completely identical prefixes generate completely identical KV that can be reused directly.79% similarUnverifiedIn bidirectional attention models (such as BERT encoders), each token's representation is affected by the entire text, so prefix KV cannot be reused independently; therefore Prompt Caching mainly appears on generative large models rather than encoder models.75% similarVerifiedThe KV Cache mechanism can cache repeated prefix content, and the more concise the system prompt, the higher the cache hit rate.75% similarUnverifiedProcessing input can spread out computational costs through mechanisms such as KV Cache, whereas generating each output token requires a full forward inference pass.74% similarUnverifiedKV Cache is a core optimization technique during the inference phase of large language models, essentially a space-for-time strategy that avoids redundant computation by caching the Key and Value vectors of historical tokens.74% similar
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