
Sentence-Level KV Caching
Boosting LLM Efficiency Through Semantic-Aware Memory Management
SentenceKV introduces a novel approach that reduces memory usage and improves inference speed by organizing key-value caches at the sentence level rather than token level.
- Achieves up to 1.7x speedup over traditional caching methods
- Reduces memory consumption while maintaining model quality
- Leverages sentence-level semantic patterns to intelligently cache information
- Compatible with existing KV caching optimization techniques
This innovation addresses critical engineering challenges for deploying LLMs with long contexts, making large language models more practical and cost-effective for real-world applications.
SentenceKV: Efficient LLM Inference via Sentence-Level Semantic KV Caching