The Memory Wall in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Analysis of Advanced KV Cache Compression and Management Strategies

Executive Summary The rapid evolution of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has fundamentally altered the landscape of artificial intelligence, transitioning from simple pattern matching to complex reasoning, code generation, and Read More …

Breaking the Context Barrier: An Architectural Deep Dive into Ring Attention and the Era of Million-Token Transformers

Section 1: The Quadratic Wall – Deconstructing the Scaling Limits of Self-Attention The remarkable success of Transformer architectures across a spectrum of artificial intelligence domains is rooted in the self-attention Read More …

Linear-Time Sequence Modeling: An In-Depth Analysis of State Space Models and the Mamba Architecture as Alternatives to Quadratic Attention

The Scaling Barrier: Deconstructing the Transformer’s Quadratic Bottleneck The Transformer architecture, introduced in 2017, has become the cornerstone of modern machine learning, particularly in natural language processing.1 Its success is Read More …