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arxiv: 2602.09725 · v3 · submitted 2026-02-10 · 💻 cs.DC · cs.LG

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Efficient Remote KV Cache Reuse with GPU-native Video Codec

Liang Mi , Weijun Wang , Jinghan Chen , Ting Cao , Haipeng Dai , Yunxin Liu
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classification 💻 cs.DC cs.LG
keywords KV cache reuseremote KV cacheGPU video codecLLM inferencetime-to-first-tokentensor compressiondistributed inferencevideo encoding
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The pith

GPU video codecs enable remote KV cache reuse for LLMs by compressing tensors into compact video formats, reducing TTFT by up to 3.51 times with lossless accuracy.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Remote KV cache reuse pulls precomputed key-value tensors from storage to skip recomputation for matching contexts in LLM inference, yet it slows dramatically on limited-bandwidth links because large uncompressed tensors take too long to transfer. The paper introduces KVCodec, which first rearranges the tensors into a layout that GPU-native video codecs can encode into highly compact video streams, then uses a pipelined fetcher to overlap transmission, decoding, and restoration so network delays stay hidden from the first-token latency. This combination keeps every generated token identical to the uncompressed case. A reader would care because LLM serving often crosses networks with variable or modest bandwidth, and the method turns cache reuse from a high-end-network luxury into a practical option that cuts waiting time without model changes or extra hardware.

Core claim

KVCodec achieves effective KV cache coding with a codec-friendly tensor layout that compresses KV caches into highly compact video formats for fast transmission and an efficient KV fetcher that orchestrates transmission, decoding, and restoration in a pipelined manner to eliminate resource contention, mask network fluctuations, and minimize TTFT, delivering up to 3.51 times reduction compared to state-of-the-art methods while preserving lossless accuracy.

What carries the argument

The codec-friendly tensor layout that rearranges KV cache tensors to match the input requirements of GPU video codecs for high-ratio compression with negligible overhead.

Load-bearing premise

KV cache tensors admit a layout that lets GPU video codecs deliver high compression ratios with no information loss for the downstream LLM computation.

What would settle it

Measure TTFT and output-token identity for identical LLM queries over a 1 Gbps link using KVCodec versus prior compressed or uncompressed baselines; the claimed speedup and exact token match would fail if either metric deviates.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.09725 by Haipeng Dai, Jinghan Chen, Liang Mi, Ting Cao, Weijun Wang, Yunxin Liu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Solutions of remote KV cache reuse. Our KVFetcher [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Current three prefilling types: full prefill, raw KV [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: “Winning areas” of three prefilling types under vari [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Peak memory of decompression in CacheGen is [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Current solutions yield an unsatisfactory trade￾off between accuracy and compression. ��2 퐷￾�1 ��1 I �1�2 Trans. Decod.+Restore Inference Layer-wise async fetching and inference. ��2 퐷�1 퐷�2 ��1 ��1 ��2 ��3 퐷�2 ��3 LMCache Mooncake Chunk-wise sync fetching then inference. ② Resource waste �1 w/ reuse �2 w/o reuse �3 � �1 2 �0 ① �2 is batched with �1 and delayed by �1 ’s fetching procedure 퐷￾�2 Fetching pro… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Similarity analy￾sis of slicing KV cache along different dimensions. Scatter them on 4 frames (10KB) Stitching 4 tensors in 1 frame (16KB) Only refer to adjacent pixels Refer to all pixels in tensors [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Intra-frame layout searches for the optimal map [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Control flow of KV fetching. Fetching-aware sched [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Dataflow of KV fetching, consisting of KV video [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: TTFT of the request with remote KV reuse across different context lengths over various devices and models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Performance comparison between CacheGen and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: KVFetcher achieves the best accuracy and com [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: TTFT breakdown across different baselines. Decoding and restoring KV cache of 7 concurrent video chunks cost only 400MB GPU memory [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Decoding through￾put on different devices. than 400ms latency per video chunk. And remote KV reuse reduces prefill computation to under 50ms. Frame-wise KV tensor restoration. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: PSNR analysis of slicing KV cache along different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Visualization of structural similarity (SSIM) across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_27.png] view at source ↗
Figure 28
Figure 28. Figure 28: Layer-wise KV fetching with KV buffer. KVFetcher also pre-allocates GPU memory that entire KV cache required, and fill the fetched remote KV cache into GPU memory in a layer-by-layer manner. To prevent fetching from stalling non-reuse requests, we maintain a KV buffer to track the state of each layer’s KV cache. Fetching requests are added to the running queue only when the pipeline satisfies following no… view at source ↗
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Remote KV cache reuse fetches KV cache for identical contexts from remote storage, avoiding recomputation, accelerating LLM inference. While it excels in high-speed networks, its performance degrades significantly in bandwidth-limited scenarios. Recent studies address this by transmitting KV caches in compressed form, but the associated heavyweight decompression counteracts the KV reuse benefits. In this paper, we propose an efficient and widely deployable remote KV cache reuse solution that leverages GPU-native video codecs. Our system, KVCodec, enables effective KV cache coding with two techniques. The codec-friendly tensor layout compresses the KV cache in a highly compact video format, enabling fast transmission. The efficient KV fetcher orchestrates the transmission, decoding, and restoration of compressed KV caches in an efficient pipelined manner, eliminating resource contention, masking network fluctuations, and achieving minimum time-to-first-token (TTFT). We prototype KVCodec on diverse GPUs from high- to low-end. Experiments reveal that it reduces TTFT by up to 3.51 times while maintaining lossless accuracy, compared to SOTA methods.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces KVCodec for remote KV cache reuse in LLM inference, leveraging GPU-native video codecs via two techniques: a codec-friendly tensor layout that compresses KV caches into compact video format for fast transmission, and an efficient KV fetcher that pipelines transmission, decoding, and restoration to minimize TTFT. Experiments on diverse GPUs claim up to 3.51× TTFT reduction versus SOTA methods while maintaining lossless accuracy.

Significance. If the central claims hold, KVCodec could make remote KV reuse practical in bandwidth-limited networks by delivering substantial TTFT gains without accuracy loss, using widely available GPU video codecs and avoiding heavyweight decompression overheads.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (codec-friendly tensor layout): The claim that this layout enables high-ratio compression with zero accuracy impact via GPU video codecs is load-bearing for the TTFT and lossless-accuracy assertions, yet the manuscript supplies no quantitative validation such as per-layer PSNR, exact-match rates on reconstructed tensors, attention-score deltas, or perplexity changes across model families and context lengths.
  2. [§5] §5 (evaluation): The headline 3.51× TTFT reduction and 'lossless accuracy' results are reported without error bars, detailed baseline implementations, full experimental methodology, or hardware-specific configurations, making it impossible to assess reproducibility or whether the gains survive network variability.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'diverse GPUs from high- to low-end' is used without naming the specific models or memory capacities tested.
  2. [§3] Notation: The paper should explicitly define how the KV tensor dimensions are reshaped into video-frame format (e.g., channel, height, width mappings) to allow readers to reproduce the layout.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the paper accordingly to improve clarity and completeness.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (codec-friendly tensor layout): The claim that this layout enables high-ratio compression with zero accuracy impact via GPU video codecs is load-bearing for the TTFT and lossless-accuracy assertions, yet the manuscript supplies no quantitative validation such as per-layer PSNR, exact-match rates on reconstructed tensors, attention-score deltas, or perplexity changes across model families and context lengths.

    Authors: We agree that explicit quantitative validation for reconstruction fidelity is necessary to support the lossless claim. While end-to-end accuracy is preserved in our experiments, we did not report intermediate metrics. In the revised manuscript we will add per-layer PSNR values, exact-match rates on reconstructed KV tensors, attention-score deltas, and perplexity measurements across multiple model families and context lengths to substantiate the zero-accuracy-impact assertion. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (evaluation): The headline 3.51× TTFT reduction and 'lossless accuracy' results are reported without error bars, detailed baseline implementations, full experimental methodology, or hardware-specific configurations, making it impossible to assess reproducibility or whether the gains survive network variability.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the evaluation section lacks sufficient detail for full reproducibility. The manuscript summarizes results but omits error bars, baseline implementation specifics, and hardware/network configurations. In the revision we will expand §5 with error bars from repeated runs, detailed baseline descriptions, complete hardware setups for each tested GPU, and additional experiments or analysis addressing network variability. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical TTFT gains measured on prototypes, not derived from self-referential equations or fits.

full rationale

The paper describes an engineering system (KVCodec) whose headline claims rest on direct prototype measurements across GPU tiers rather than any derivation chain. The abstract and provided text contain no equations, fitted parameters, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes that could reduce a 'prediction' to its own inputs. The two techniques (codec-friendly layout and pipelined fetcher) are presented as implementation choices whose effectiveness is validated by experiment, not by construction. No self-citations are used to justify core premises. This is the common case of a measurement-driven systems paper whose results remain externally falsifiable.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced; the approach rests on existing GPU video codec hardware and standard tensor operations.

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