DualPath: Breaking the Storage Bandwidth Bottleneck in Agentic LLM Inference research paper by DeepSeek, 2026
DeepSeek · Agents and evaluation · Feb 25, 2026 · 22 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.
By Yongtong Wu, Shaoyuan Chen, Yinmin Zhong and 10 more · arXiv 2602.21548 · PDF
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