Code Archaeology
Aug 5, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence
LLM Inference Explained: Prefill, Decode, and KV Cache Mechanics
This article explains the LLM inference process, detailing the prefill and decode stages, tokenization, KV cache mechanics, and key metrics like TTFT and ITL, while introducing inference frameworks MindIE and LMDeploy with their optimization features.
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