Method Drift›KV-cache compression

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CachedAttention

KV-cache compression

superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods

1 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks

What papers say

Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites CachedAttention as a baseline.

“CachedAttention overlaps layer-wise pre-loading with computation. However, it needs a dedicated, potentially unbounded pre-loading buffer in the GPU, while ShadowServe has a bounded GPU memory usage.”
— ShadowServe: Interference-Free KV Cache Fetching for Distributed Prefix Caching

Newer alternatives

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base.