Published on January 30, 2026, the report describes LMCache, an open-source LLM serving extension that manages KV states across GPUs, CPUs, and local disks.
On January 30, 2026, a report described LMCache as an open-source extension for serving language models that manages the KV cache across GPUs, CPUs, and local disks. According to the report, it can reuse repeated text fragments, not just prefixes. Reusing KV states may reduce prefill work and GPU memory use during serving.
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