YOCO back in spotlight: blog breaks down cross-layer KV sharing in DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and Gemma 4
donglixp · x · 2026-09-21
- With the reported release of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (unconfirmed), its adoption of YOCO (You Only Cache Once) has put the architecture back in the spotlight.
- The author published a short technical note (PDF, in Chinese and English) covering YOCO and cross-layer KV sharing, including YOCO-U, YOCO-Sparse, and related designs in DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Gemma 4 E2B/E4B, and WeLM.
- The author notes possible omissions; the English version was AI-translated from the Chinese original.
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