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Transformers KV Caching Explained

By João Lages ·

João Lages’s comparison of attention matrices with and without KV caching, shown at the fourth generation step.
Static frame from the original KV caching comparison · João Lages / Medium. View in context ↗

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An illustrated explanation of reusing attention states to speed up autoregressive generation.

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João Lages (8 October 2023). Transformers KV Caching Explained. Medium. https://medium.com/@joaolages/kv-caching-explained-276520203249

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@misc{transformers_kv_caching_explained,
  author = {João Lages},
  title = {{Transformers KV Caching Explained}},
  howpublished = {Medium},
  url = {https://medium.com/@joaolages/kv-caching-explained-276520203249},
  year = {2023}
}
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