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Anyone else tried out KV cache blending?

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Idea is simple-ish in abstract: instead of running normal prefill over all of a given prompt, split it into parts - generates caches for part A and part B in isolation, concatenate the result, feed it into decode like normal. I honestly thought it'd totally fail. But I've been trying it out on Ling…

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  1. 2026-08-22 11:14 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Anyone else tried out KV cache blending?

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