DeepSeek cut per-token KV cache size by 54x in nine months
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-10
DeepSeek has compressed per-token KV cache size by 54x over the past nine months, per a share on X — a striking inference-efficiency gain, since KV cache dominates long-context memory footprints.
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