Publications

Explore our latest research papers, articles, and whitepapers.

Artificial Intelligence

MoSKA: Mixture of Shared KV Attention for Efficient Long-Sequence LLM Inference

in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
The escalating context length in Large Language Models (LLMs) creates a severe performance bottleneck around the Key-Value (KV) cache, whose memory-bound nature leads to significant GPU under-utilization. This paper introduces Mixture of Shared KV Attention (MoSKA), an architecture that addresses this challenge by exploiting the heterogeneity of context data. It differentiates between per-request unique and massively reused shared sequences. The core of MoSKA is a novel Shared KV Attention mechanism that transforms the attention on shared data from a series of memory-bound GEMV operations into a single, compute-bound GEMM by batching concurrent requests. This is supported by an MoE-inspired sparse attention strategy that prunes the search space and a tailored Disaggregated Infrastructure that specializes hardware for unique and shared data. This comprehensive approach demonstrates a throughput increase of up to 538.7 × over baselines in workloads with high context sharing, offering a clear architectural path toward scalable LLM inference.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/LCA.2025.3627539
PreviousNextList