Optimizing Time to First Token with Fine-Grained KV Cache Blocks, Real-time Reuse, and Efficient Eviction Algorithms

In our previous blog post, we demonstrated how reusing the key-value (KV) cache by offloading it to CPU memory can accelerate time to first token (TTFT) by up…

In our previous blog post, we demonstrated how reusing the key-value (KV) cache by offloading it to CPU memory can accelerate time to first token (TTFT) by up to 14x on x86-based NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and 28x on the NVIDIA GH200 Superchip. In this post, we shed light on KV cache reuse techniques and best practices that can drive even further TTFT speedups. LLM models are rapidly…

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