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Comment by 0-_-0

5 hours ago

This can't be used to save VRAM in practice. To generate a new token with the primary model, you first need to decompress the cache, which involves regenerating the whole sequence from scratch. I.e. generate 1 million tokens with the small model to generate 1 with the large.

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