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Re:Can I Buy Your KV Cache? by evrydayhustling on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:33PM (#48509682)
All major model providers offer prefix caching, which is this.
Re:Can I Buy Your KV Cache? by lumost on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:06PM (#48509997)
No, reusing segments of the kv cache for different purposes in an order independent manner is an active research area.
Re:Can I Buy Your KV Cache? by dgellow on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:16PM (#48510066)
Any keyword or paper I can search for?
Re:Can I Buy Your KV Cache? by dvmazur on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:44PM (#48510255)
AsyncResoning[1] does a trick of that sort to give agents concurrent cache views.

You basically have two agents look at the same cache under different views. Say agent_0 gets [a_1, a_0] and agent_1 gets [a_0, a_1]. They also write to this cache concurrently while decoding. To solve positional embedding inconsistencies they rotate the query projections for each block (a_0 and a_1) separately.

The computations you get that way do not exactly match the setup where you would naively prefill on every step, but are close enough.

Same trick could be used for the setup discussed here, I guess: prefill the document cache separately (p), prepend the system prompt (s) and get a cache view [s, p] from which you can then decode.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10931

Re:Can I Buy Your KV Cache? by kolinko on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:25AM (#48513595)
But this would work only for first layer, or am I missing something?