How prompt caching works - Paged Attention and Automatic Prefix Caching plus practical tips

TL;DR


Summary:
- Prompt caching is a technique used in language models to improve their efficiency and performance.
- When a user submits a prompt, the language model checks if a similar prompt has been processed before. If so, it retrieves the cached response instead of generating a new one.
- This can significantly speed up the response time, especially for common or frequently used prompts, as the model doesn't have to go through the entire generation process again.

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