Breaking the VRAM Wall: How Hierarchical KV Cache Clustering Linearizes Transformer Inference Costs

How clustering the key-value cache collapses the memory economics of long-context Transformers — up to 83% VRAM reduction and 4.3x serving throughput.

Breaking the VRAM Wall: How Hierarchical KV Cache Clustering Linearizes Transformer Inference Costs
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Mukesh Anand G
Published on2026-02-10

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How clustering the key-value cache collapses the memory economics of long-context Transformers — up to 83% VRAM reduction and 4.3x serving throughput.

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