Deep Dive into KV-Caching In Mistral

Ever wondered why the time to first token in LLMs is high but subsequent tokens are super fast?In this post, I dive into the details of KV-Caching used in Mistral, a topic I initially found quite daunting. However, as I delved deeper, it became a fascinating subject, especially when it explained why the time to first token (TTFT) in these language models is generally high — a pattern I noticed during countless API calls 

Jan 14, 2025 - 19:09
Deep Dive into KV-Caching In Mistral

Ever wondered why the time to first token in LLMs is high but subsequent tokens are super fast?

In this post, I dive into the details of KV-Caching used in Mistral, a topic I initially found quite daunting. However, as I delved deeper, it became a fascinating subject, especially when it explained why the time to first token (TTFT) in these language models is generally high — a pattern I noticed during countless API calls