The Two Pillars of LLM Inference: Prefill vs. Decode
Explore the two execution phases of LLM inference: compute-bound prefill vs. memory-bandwidth-bound decode. Understand arithmetic intensity and the role of the KV cache.
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Explore the two execution phases of LLM inference: compute-bound prefill vs. memory-bandwidth-bound decode. Understand arithmetic intensity and the role of the KV cache.
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