According to a new arxiv paper titled "Can I Buy Your KV Cache?", researchers are investigating whether the key-value caches that accelerate language model inference could be bought, sold, or shared between providers. These precomputed activation states currently regenerate for each query; trading them could reduce redundant computation and lower latency costs in large-scale inference systems.

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