The KV-cache system is fully implemented and working. Here's a summary: ## Implementation Summary ### 1. Data Structures (`kv_cache.py`) | Class | Purpose | |-------|---------| | `CacheConfig` | Configuration for cache dimensions and memory format | | `KVCacheBlock` | Single block for paged attention (fixed-size memory unit) | | `PagedKVCache` | Block-wise KV storage with on-demand allocation | | `FlatKVCache` | Pre-allocated flat storage for max throughput | | `MultiHeadAttention` | Attention with integrated cache read/write | | `TransformerBlock` | Single layer with pre-norm and FFN | | `BatchedInferenceEngine` | Manages variable-length batch sequences | ### 2. Memory Layout ``` [layers, batch, seq, 2, heads, dim] # Flat format [block_size, heads, dim] × N blocks # Paged format ``` ### 3. Key Algorithms - **Incremental decoding**: Only computes Q for new token, reuses cached K,V - **Causal masking**: Prevents attending to future tokens - **Attention**: `softmax(Q × K^T / √d) × V` ### 4. Memory Analysis Results | Sequence Length | Prefill Cost | Cached Decode | Speedup | |----------------|--------------|--------------|---------| | 4096 | 16,777,216 | 4,096 | **4,096x** | ### 5. Optimizations Proposed 1. **Paged Attention**: Block-based allocation (16 tokens/block) reduces memory waste from pre-allocation 2. **Quantization**: FP16→INT8 = 2x compression, INT4 = 4x 3. **Chunked Attention** (Flash Attention style): 256x memory reduction for attention scores ### 6. GPU Execution Mapping - HBM → Shared Memory → Registers hierarchy - KV-cache loaded from HBM per decode step - Tensor cores for GEMM operations - Critical bottlenecks: memory bandwidth, O(S²) attention Run with: ```bash python kv_cache.py ```