Smarter Cache Sharing for LLMs

Smarter Cache Sharing for LLMs

Improving inference efficiency through semantic similarity

KVShare introduces a novel approach to share Key-Value caches across multiple users based on semantic similarity rather than exact text matching.

  • Enables fine-grained reuse of KV caches between different but semantically similar queries
  • Overcomes limitations of traditional prefix caching while maintaining response diversity
  • Achieves significant inference efficiency improvements for LLMs and MLLMs
  • Particularly valuable for applications with repetitive query patterns like education and customer support

This engineering innovation directly addresses the computational bottleneck in LLM deployment, making real-time AI assistants more scalable and cost-effective.

KVShare: Semantic-Aware Key-Value Cache Sharing for Efficient Large Language Model Inference

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