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Hierarchical KV caching
Keeps cache state in GPU memory during GPU use and in pinned host memory during tool use.
Also called hierarchical extension of the cache.
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a state resides in HBM during GPU time and in a pinned host pool during tool time.
usedinference servingin MiMo-V2.6Xiaomi
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Other methods under inference & serving :: KV cache management.
Chunked prefillPrefix cachingPrompt cachingSWA Bounded ReplayLanguage-model-only serving modePeriodic cache checkpointingCompressed KV cachingKDA-aware prefix-cache managementRadixCacheZero SWA caching8-bit Mamba cache quantizationAsynchronous cache offloading and restorationAutomatic cacheBlock-based KV cacheCross-layer KV-cache reuseCustomized heterogeneous KV-cache layoutDisable prefix caching for benchmarkingDynamic allocation of fixed-size state-cache poolsEncoder SWA bounded replayExact SWA KV reconstruction via full multi-layer replayFine-grained prefix hashingInference-side KV-cache reset on weight synchronizationKDA with prefill cacheKey-value reuse in global attention layers