Equation 9 · Part 1 · How AI Inference Serving Actually Works
Symbol h_kv
What this part means
the number of key-value attention heads.
Its job in the formula
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For a model with L layers, key-value attention heads, head dimension , holding a sequence of length s across b concurrently served sequences, stored at p bytes per element, the total resident size is
The passage around this formula
Its footprint follows directly from the shape of the cache. For a model with L layers, key-value attention heads, head dimension , holding a sequence of length s across b concurrently served sequences, stored at p bytes per element, the total resident size is
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