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Compact Kumo KV cache when retaining all heads for Kumo Tabular S - #1138

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Kumo Tabular S’s KV cache keeps an unused copy of the original keys in memory, which adds 50% to its ICL cache storage. The fix makes the cached values contiguous so that unused storage can be freed. We keep all heads and the same cached values.

In attention.py, keys and values are views into the same allocation:

key, value = F.linear(key_value, kv_weight, kv_bias).chunk(2, -1)

Later, we normalize the keys:

key = self.key_transform(key)

That produces a new tensor. Reassigning key doesn’t overwrite the old buffer, and value still references it. So the cache ends up keeping normalized keys, the unused original keys, and values.

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  • Performance
    • Improved memory layout consistency for cached attention projections, which may support more efficient processing.

When return_key_value is enabled, Attention.forward converts the cached key projection to the value dtype and makes both cached projections contiguous.

Changes: Attention cache tensors

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Cached projection layout
sdm/nn/attention.py
The cached key projection is converted to the value dtype and made contiguous. The cached value projection is also made contiguous.

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A narrow one-token, unbatched path can keep the fused QKV buffer alive, reducing the memory savings from cache compaction. The impact is bounded to this input and configuration, so the PR is otherwise mergeable; cloning the cached tensors and checking backing storage would close the gap.

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test/models/kumo/tabular/test_icl.py: 1

84-84: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The Cache mapping exposes public entries, and each KVCacheEntry exposes key and value. The test can enumerate those fields and retain the same unique-storage assertion without using cache._tensors(). The private traversal is unnecessary and conflicts with the testing guideline.

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Review comment at @test/models/kumo/tabular/test_icl.py at line 84:
Update the cache tensor enumeration in the test to iterate over the public Cache
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386-387: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clone cached projections to release fused QKV storage.

For an unbatched one-token input with key_transform=None, the split key and value can remain contiguous views into the fused QKV projection. Matching-dtype .to() and .contiguous() can return those views, so the cache keeps the larger fused allocation alive.

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-                key=key.to(value.dtype).contiguous(),
-                value=value.contiguous(),
+                key=key.to(value.dtype).clone(memory_format=torch.contiguous_format),
+                value=value.clone(memory_format=torch.contiguous_format),

Add regression coverage for an unbatched (1, C) input with no key transform. Check storage ownership or capacity, not only Cache.size(), because Cache.size() counts logical tensor elements and does not detect retained backing storage.

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Review comment at @sdm/nn/attention.py around lines 386 - 387:
Update the cached key and value assignments so each tensor owns a contiguous
copy rather than retaining a view into the fused QKV projection, including when
dtype already matches. Add regression coverage for an unbatched (1, C) input
with no key transform that verifies storage ownership or capacity, not only
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- Around line 386-387: Update the cached key and value assignments so each
tensor owns a contiguous copy rather than retaining a view into the fused QKV
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