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Luce KVFlash, announced by Sandro (@pupposandro) with Davide Ciffa, replaces…

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Luce KVFlash, announced by Sandro (@pupposandro) with Davide Ciffa, replaces full-key/value caches with an auto-sized GPU KV pool that pages cold 64-token chunks to host RAM (bit-exact and recallable). On Qwen3.6-27B at 256K it reduces VRAM pressure (4.6 GiB full cache) and raises decode from 13 tok/s to 38.6 tok/s on a 3090 while keeping accuracy and only 72 MiB resident.

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Can't wait to try this out on my LuceBox! 2 weeks to go!

Sandro (@pupposandro)

Excited to launch Luce KVFlash. We've been working harder than ever with @davideciffa to bring better DX for local AI.

Today, long context has a second memory bill nobody budgets for: the KV cache.

On Qwen3.6-27B at 256K it costs 4.6 GiB of VRAM and drags decode down to 13 tok/s, because every new token reads the whole thing.

KVFlash keeps a small pool of KV on the GPU, auto-sized to your VRAM, and pages cold 64-token chunks to host RAM, bit-exact and recallable.

decode holds a flat 38.6 tok/s from 64K to the native 256K on a 3090, 2.9x the full cache at 256K, 72 MiB resident and benchmark accuracy unchanged.

— https://nitter.net/pupposandro/status/2066212966458933565#m