A Survey on Large Language Model Acceleration based on KV Cache Management

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Main Authors: Li, Haoyang, Li, Yiming, Tian, Anxin, Tang, Tianhao, Xu, Zhanchao, Chen, Xuejia, Hu, Nicole, Dong, Wei, Li, Qing, Chen, Lei
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author Li, Haoyang
Li, Yiming
Tian, Anxin
Tang, Tianhao
Xu, Zhanchao
Chen, Xuejia
Hu, Nicole
Dong, Wei
Li, Qing
Chen, Lei
author_facet Li, Haoyang
Li, Yiming
Tian, Anxin
Tang, Tianhao
Xu, Zhanchao
Chen, Xuejia
Hu, Nicole
Dong, Wei
Li, Qing
Chen, Lei
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized a wide range of domains such as natural language processing, computer vision, and multi-modal tasks due to their ability to comprehend context and perform logical reasoning. However, the computational and memory demands of LLMs, particularly during inference, pose significant challenges when scaling them to real-world, long-context, and real-time applications. Key-Value (KV) cache management has emerged as a critical optimization technique for accelerating LLM inference by reducing redundant computations and improving memory utilization. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of KV cache management strategies for LLM acceleration, categorizing them into token-level, model-level, and system-level optimizations. Token-level strategies include KV cache selection, budget allocation, merging, quantization, and low-rank decomposition, while model-level optimizations focus on architectural innovations and attention mechanisms to enhance KV reuse. System-level approaches address memory management, scheduling, and hardware-aware designs to improve efficiency across diverse computing environments. Additionally, the survey provides an overview of both text and multimodal datasets and benchmarks used to evaluate these strategies. By presenting detailed taxonomies and comparative analyses, this work aims to offer useful insights for researchers and practitioners to support the development of efficient and scalable KV cache management techniques, contributing to the practical deployment of LLMs in real-world applications. The curated paper list for KV cache management is in: \href{https://github.com/TreeAI-Lab/Awesome-KV-Cache-Management}{https://github.com/TreeAI-Lab/Awesome-KV-Cache-Management}.
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spellingShingle A Survey on Large Language Model Acceleration based on KV Cache Management
Li, Haoyang
Li, Yiming
Tian, Anxin
Tang, Tianhao
Xu, Zhanchao
Chen, Xuejia
Hu, Nicole
Dong, Wei
Li, Qing
Chen, Lei
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized a wide range of domains such as natural language processing, computer vision, and multi-modal tasks due to their ability to comprehend context and perform logical reasoning. However, the computational and memory demands of LLMs, particularly during inference, pose significant challenges when scaling them to real-world, long-context, and real-time applications. Key-Value (KV) cache management has emerged as a critical optimization technique for accelerating LLM inference by reducing redundant computations and improving memory utilization. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of KV cache management strategies for LLM acceleration, categorizing them into token-level, model-level, and system-level optimizations. Token-level strategies include KV cache selection, budget allocation, merging, quantization, and low-rank decomposition, while model-level optimizations focus on architectural innovations and attention mechanisms to enhance KV reuse. System-level approaches address memory management, scheduling, and hardware-aware designs to improve efficiency across diverse computing environments. Additionally, the survey provides an overview of both text and multimodal datasets and benchmarks used to evaluate these strategies. By presenting detailed taxonomies and comparative analyses, this work aims to offer useful insights for researchers and practitioners to support the development of efficient and scalable KV cache management techniques, contributing to the practical deployment of LLMs in real-world applications. The curated paper list for KV cache management is in: \href{https://github.com/TreeAI-Lab/Awesome-KV-Cache-Management}{https://github.com/TreeAI-Lab/Awesome-KV-Cache-Management}.
title A Survey on Large Language Model Acceleration based on KV Cache Management
topic Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19442