Implementing the KV cache proves you understand why decode is efficient: you append the new token's K/V and reuse the rest instead of recomputing. The signal is the append-and-attend-over-cache logic. Here is the implementation.
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Implementing the KV cache proves you understand why decode is efficient: you append the new token's K/V and reuse the rest instead of recomputing. The signal is the append-and-attend-over-cache logic. Here is the implementation.
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