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DeepSeek’s KV-cache optimization is claimed to cut footprint 437× in some long-context cases

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The excerpt claims a DeepSeek KV-cache optimization reduces footprint by roughly 437× for some long-session workloads compared with DeepSeek-V1. The claim is highly relevant to inference costs, but the excerpt gives no method or evidence.

What

The excerpt claims DeepSeek’s latest approach sharply reduces KV-cache footprint for some long-context use cases.

How

It attributes the reduction to MLA, compressed attention, cross-layer cache reuse, a causal encoder-decoder architecture, and FP4 caching.

Why it matters

Smaller KV caches matter because serving long-context models requires VRAM to hold the cache in GPU memory.

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