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DualPath: Breaking the Storage Bandwidth Bottleneck in Agentic LLM Inference research paper by DeepSeek, 2026

DeepSeek · Feb 25, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 19 citations · 55 upvotes · unverified

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DualPath addresses KV-cache storage I/O bottlenecks in multi-turn LLM inference by introducing dual-path loading and dynamic load balancing across prefill and decode engines.

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About this paper
Authors
Yongtong Wu, Shaoyuan Chen, Yinmin Zhong and 10 more
arXiv
2602.21548 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
19, 2 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
55 · Hugging Face
Lab
DeepSeek · on Companies

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Influential citationsfirst count: 2Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 19Sep 25, 2026
New paperFound by the weekly scan, unverifiedSep 25, 2026

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