KV cache offloading works when host memory fits agent reuse

EfficientAgent predicts the reusable context of concurrent agents and adapts cache writes to host-memory capacity.

Chinese Tech
Kunming Shao · Jierun Chen · Jiangnan Yu · Xiao-Hui Li · Chaofan Tao · Yanli Wang · +4 more

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Huawei Technologies Ltd. · The University of Hong Kong · Sun Yat-sen University

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The authors study why moving language-model key-value states from GPU to host memory can either accelerate or slow concurrent agents.

The authors analyzed concurrent coding-agent traces in which each model call repeats much of the preceding conversation.

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From Huawei Technologies Ltd. and 3 others · Released code

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KV offloading accelerates concurrent LLM agents only when host memory holds the pool’s reuse working set and hardware economics favor reloading over recomputation.

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