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KV caching is a technique that eliminates redundant computation in autoregressive LLM inference by caching key and value matrices from the attention mechanism and reusing them across generation steps. Without caching, generating each new token requires reprocessing all previous tokens, resulting in quadratic computational complexity. With KV caching, only the new token's K and V are computed per step while prior context is retrieved from cache, reducing complexity to linear and enabling 3–5× faster inference. The trade-off is linear memory growth with sequence length. The guide covers the attention mechanism's Q/K/V projections, a step-by-step comparison of generation with and without caching, pseudocode for implementing the cache (initialization, forward pass, cache update, attention computation, and cache management), and the two-phase prefill-then-decode generation loop.

KV Caching in LLMs: A Guide for Developers

The Computational Problem in Autoregressive Generation

Understanding the Attention Mechanism and KV Caching

Comparing Token Generation With and Without KV Caching

Implementing KV Caching: A Pseudocode Walkthrough