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The KV cache, why LLM inference is memory-bound, not compute-bound

Dev.to · I Want To Learn Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The KV cache, why LLM inference is memory-bound, not compute-bound

Everyone optimizes models for FLOPs, but when an LLM generates text, the bottleneck is usually memory, not math. The reason is a structure called the KV cache.