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The KV Cache Is the New Memory Wall
arXiv cs.LG — Machine Learning
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Research demonstrates long-context LLM inference is constrained by memory bandwidth and KV cache size rather than compute capacity.
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- arXiv cs.LG — Machine Learning · RESEARCH
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- 29 September 2026
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- 30 Sept 2026, 03:01 UK
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- The KV Cache Is the New Memory Wall ↗
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arXiv:2609.30854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive LLM inference at long context is bounded by memory bandwidth, not arithmetic throughput, and the binding resource shifts from…
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