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The KV Cache (key-value cache) mechanism accelerates inference by caching the Key and Value vectors generated by the self-attention layer to avoid redundant computation, but the longer the context, the more vectors must reside in VRAM, causing memory pressure to grow in a near-linear fashion.
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