High-throughput LLM hosting, KV caching, vLLM, speculative decoding, and quantization.
For a small example, three inputs arrive within a short window. Pad or pack them, run one forward pass, split outputs, and compare throughput with added queue delay.
A classifier must respond under a 100 ms target. Profile preprocessing and model time, add bounded batching, validate schemas, load-test tails, and canary a version.
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Chapter 1 of 5 · Core
During autoregressive generation in Transformer models, each newly generated token depends on all previous tokens in the sequence. Re-computing the Key () and Value () projections for all past tokens at every decoding step creates an computation bottleneck (where is the current sequence length). To mitigate this, Key-Value (KV) Caching stores the past key and value vectors in memory.
Mathematical Dimensions and Memory Profile: Let:
At precision bytes per parameter (typically 2 for FP16/BF16), the KV Cache memory footprint is: *The factor of 2 accounts for storing both key and value tensors.*
For a 70B parameter model (, , ) at batch size 32 with a sequence length of 4096 tokens using FP16: This massive memory requirement makes LLM serving strictly memory-bandwidth bound during the decoding phase.
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