# KV Cache from scratch in nanoVLM

DevFeed: [KV Cache from scratch in nanoVLM](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kv-cache-from-scratch-in-nanovlm-7304.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/kv-cache>)

Author: Aritra Roy Gosthipaty; Kashif Rasul; Luis; Andres Marafioti; Pedro Cuenca

Published: 2025-06-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [Transformer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformer.md>), [PyTorch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pytorch.md>)

Tags: [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [generate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generate.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [nanovlm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nanovlm.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [pytorch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pytorch.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlm.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how KV Caching was implemented from scratch in the nanoVLM repository using pure PyTorch, reporting a 38% generation speedup. It describes the sequential nature of autoregressive language-model generation, the repeated computation in transformer self-attention, and how caching previously computed key and value tensors reduces this redundancy.

## Source excerpt

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