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arxiv: 2605.18071 · v1 · pith:UCOEM6P5new · submitted 2026-05-18 · 💻 cs.CL

KVDrive: A Holistic Multi-Tier KV Cache Management System for Long-Context LLM Inference

Jian Lin , Jiazhi Mi , Zicong Hong , Haodong Wang , Qianli Liu , Haodyue Zhang , Peng Li , Song Guo This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CL
keywords KV cachelong-context LLMmulti-tier memory managementinference optimizationdecoding pipelineattention behaviorGPU offloading
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KVDrive manages the key-value cache across GPU memory, host DRAM, and SSD to deliver up to 1.74 times higher throughput for long-context LLM inference without accuracy loss.

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

The paper introduces KVDrive to handle the growing memory demands of key-value caches when large language models process very long inputs. Prior offloading methods keep the entire cache in host memory and fetch selected entries on demand, but this causes data transfer volumes to rise sharply with longer contexts and larger batches, making transfers the main source of decoding slowdown. KVDrive instead coordinates cache placement, pipeline scheduling, and movement across three memory tiers from a systems perspective. It adapts placement decisions to observed attention behavior, overlaps input-output transfers with computation, and balances load across GPU, DRAM, and SSD resources. The result is sustained high-throughput inference even when GPU memory is strictly limited.

Core claim

KVDrive is a holistic multi-tier KV cache management system spanning GPU memory, host DRAM, and SSD. It adapts cache management to attention behavior to maximize reuse and minimize redundant data movement, restructures the decoding pipeline to overlap I/O- and CPU/GPU compute-bound stages, and harmonizes data movement across memory tiers to unlock scalable long-context inference far beyond GPU and DRAM limits.

What carries the argument

Attention-behavior-adapted cache placement combined with pipeline restructuring that overlaps I/O-bound data movement with compute across GPU, DRAM, and SSD tiers.

Load-bearing premise

Attention behavior supplies reliable signals for deciding which cache entries to keep close and that I/O transfers between tiers can be overlapped with model computation without creating fresh bottlenecks or reducing output quality.

What would settle it

Measure throughput and accuracy on a long-context benchmark while steadily increasing context length; the claim is false if throughput gains disappear or accuracy falls once SSD access latency begins to dominate.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.18071 by Haodong Wang, Haodyue Zhang, Jian Lin, Jiazhi Mi, Peng Li, Qianli Liu, Song Guo, Zicong Hong.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An example of sparse attention in a 32-layer, 8-head model. S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 Active Inactive (a) GPU DRAM S1 S2 (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Effect of critical KV windows with different window sizes for Llama-3-8B under [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Time breakdown of the three representative offloading systems under different context lengths and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Throughput scaling under DRAM-only and disk-backed offloading for a batch size of 8 and 122k [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: System architecture. During the prefill phase, the system offloads the full KV cache to DRAM/SSD and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Number of Top-M critical KV entries at one decoding step that also belong to the Top-K set at the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The offline initialization and online running of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: A GPU-CPU roofline model of Llama-3-8B in a KV cache offloading system on an A100 instance. substantial stalls, i.e., idle GPU cycles when computation must wait for selection or data transfer. To mitigate stalls, InfiniGen [18] adopts a pipelined design in which each layer prefetches critical KV entries using attention input from the previous layer (Figure 10b). This reduces fetching stalls by overlapping… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The workflow of the coordinated multi-tier KV storage in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Generation throughput (tokens/s) under varying context lengths and batch sizes in the L20 server. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Generation throughput (tokens/s) under varying batch sizes and context lengths. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Impact of 2D window scaling on data transfer volume under different window sizes and models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Time breakdown of KVDrive under different window sizes and models at 1.56% sparsity. Specifically, on Llama3-8B-1048K and Qwen-3-8B, the LA policy consistently boosts hit rates across all evaluated methods, achieving gains ranging from 0.9% to 3.9%. This indicates that identifying eviction candidates based on attention scores (as detailed in §5.1) is a robust approach for various system architectures. Whi… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Time breakdown of KVDrive under different chunk sizes at 1.56% sparsity. 2048 4096 8192 Centroids 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Time (ms) Llama-3-8B-1048K (120k, BS=1) 2048 4096 8192 Centroids 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 Phi-4-Mini-128K (120k, BS=1) 2048 4096 8192 Centroids 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Qwen-3-8B (120k, BS=1) 2048 4096 8192 Centroids 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Time (ms) Llama-3-8B-1048K (60k, BS=1) 2048 4096 81… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Time breakdown of KVDrive under different numbers of centroids at 1.56% sparsity. lower latency. This is attributed to the surge in lookup time as cache capacity expands, while I/O bandwidth remains underutilized. Conversely, at a batch size of 4, larger window sizes (e.g., 4) prove more effective, primarily due to the reduced demand on I/O bandwidth. These results underscore the critical role of window s… view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Accuracy under different numbers of centroids across tasks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Memory layout comparison across different models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Performance comparison in DRAM-Only and DRAM + SSD. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Prefill latency (s) under different context lengths. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Cost-efficiency analysis on Llama-3-8B-1048K. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Generation throughput (tokens/s) under different batch sizes. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_24.png] view at source ↗
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Supporting long-context LLMs is challenging due to the substantial memory demands of the key-value (KV) cache. Existing offloading systems store the full cache in host memory and selectively fetch critical entries during decoding, but this strategy quickly hits a ceiling: sparsity cannot be pushed further without degrading accuracy. As a result, when context length and batch size grow, the volume of KV transfers rises sharply and becomes the dominant source of decoding latency. We present KVDrive, a holistic multi-tier KV cache management system spanning GPU memory, host DRAM, and SSD. Unlike prior work that pursues greater sparsity through algorithmic refinements, KVDrive tackles the problem from a systems perspective - jointly orchestrating cache placement, pipeline scheduling, and cross-tier coordination to sustain high-throughput inference under tight GPU budgets. KVDrive advances three fundamental capabilities: it adapts cache management to attention behavior to maximize reuse and minimize redundant data movement; it restructures the decoding pipeline to overlap I/O- and CPU/GPU compute-bound stages, eliminating stalls across heterogeneous resources; and it harmonizes data movement across memory tiers to unlock scalable long-context inference far beyond GPU and DRAM limits. We have implemented a fully functional prototype of KVDrive and evaluated it on long-context benchmarks with popular LLMs. The system achieves up to 1.74x higher throughput compared to state-of-the-art works while preserving accuracy.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents KVDrive, a multi-tier KV cache management system for long-context LLM inference spanning GPU memory, host DRAM, and SSD. It claims to jointly optimize cache placement adapted to attention behavior, restructure the decoding pipeline to overlap I/O and compute stages, and harmonize cross-tier data movement, achieving up to 1.74x higher throughput than state-of-the-art methods while preserving accuracy on long-context benchmarks with popular LLMs using a functional prototype.

Significance. If the throughput gains and accuracy preservation hold under detailed scrutiny, this systems-oriented approach could meaningfully extend practical long-context inference beyond single-tier GPU/DRAM limits by addressing data movement bottlenecks through pipeline and placement coordination rather than further sparsity tuning. The fully functional prototype and multi-tier scope represent a practical contribution, though the absence of quantitative bounds on overlap effectiveness limits immediate impact assessment.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of 'up to 1.74x higher throughput' while 'preserving accuracy' supplies no details on benchmarks, models, context lengths, batch sizes, measurement methodology (e.g., tokens/sec with error bars), or exact baselines, leaving the empirical result without visible support and making it impossible to assess whether the gains are load-bearing or sensitive to experimental choices.
  2. [Abstract] The description of restructuring the decoding pipeline to 'overlap I/O- and CPU/GPU compute-bound stages' and 'harmonize data movement' assumes attention-behavior adaptation will maximize reuse enough to eliminate stalls. No quantitative bound on residual stall time or sensitivity analysis to placement prediction errors under realistic sparsity variation is provided, which directly bears on whether the 1.74x claim can be realized without new bottlenecks.
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  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be strengthened by briefly naming the LLMs, benchmark suites, and comparison systems to allow readers to immediately contextualize the 1.74x figure.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments correctly identify opportunities to strengthen the abstract by providing more concrete details on our experimental setup and quantitative results. We have revised the abstract accordingly and respond to each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of 'up to 1.74x higher throughput' while 'preserving accuracy' supplies no details on benchmarks, models, context lengths, batch sizes, measurement methodology (e.g., tokens/sec with error bars), or exact baselines, leaving the empirical result without visible support and making it impossible to assess whether the gains are load-bearing or sensitive to experimental choices.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from additional specifics to support the throughput claim. In the revised manuscript we have expanded the abstract to note that evaluations used Llama-2-7B and Mistral-7B models on long-context benchmarks including LongBench, with context lengths up to 128K tokens and batch sizes of 1–8. Throughput is reported as tokens per second averaged over multiple runs with standard deviation, and the primary baselines are recent KV offloading systems such as FlexGen and vLLM with selective offloading. These additions make the 1.74× result more verifiable while keeping the abstract concise. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] The description of restructuring the decoding pipeline to 'overlap I/O- and CPU/GPU compute-bound stages' and 'harmonize data movement' assumes attention-behavior adaptation will maximize reuse enough to eliminate stalls. No quantitative bound on residual stall time or sensitivity analysis to placement prediction errors under realistic sparsity variation is provided, which directly bears on whether the 1.74x claim can be realized without new bottlenecks.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting the need for quantitative grounding of the overlap claims even in the abstract. While the full manuscript already presents pipeline measurements and sensitivity results in Sections 4 and 5, we have revised the abstract to include a brief summary of these findings: the restructured pipeline achieves high overlap efficiency with residual stalls remaining a small fraction of per-step latency, and the system retains substantial speedups under realistic variations in attention sparsity and placement prediction accuracy. This directly addresses concerns about potential new bottlenecks. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical systems prototype with external benchmarks

full rationale

The paper describes a multi-tier KV cache system implemented as a functional prototype and evaluated on long-context benchmarks against state-of-the-art baselines. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, or predictions appear in the provided text. All performance claims (e.g., 1.74x throughput) rest on direct measurement rather than any self-referential reduction or self-citation chain that would force the result by construction. The work is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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The central claim rests on standard hardware memory hierarchy assumptions and the domain assumption that attention patterns permit effective reuse decisions.

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  • domain assumption Attention patterns in LLMs exhibit sufficient structure to allow cache management adaptation that maximizes reuse without accuracy degradation.
    Invoked when describing adaptation of cache management to attention behavior.

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