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KV-cache sharing
Shares KV-cache content to reduce the global cache footprint.
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Combined with KV cache sharing [Shazeer, 2019] and the reuse of keys as values in global layers [Kayyam et al., 2026], these optimizations reduce the global KV cache footprint by up to 37.5%.
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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 hashingHierarchical KV cachingInference-side KV-cache reset on weight synchronizationKDA with prefill cache