concept:prefill-decode
Prefill Decode
Prefill Decode in the context of production machine-learning systems.
Lessons
Formal explanations, examples, simulations, and checkpoints.
Frontier architectures & efficient inference
Autoregressive decoding policies
The model supplies possibilities; the decoding policy decides which possibilities can become product behavior.
Frontier architectures & efficient inferenceKV caches, GQA/MQA, and long context
KV caching removes repeated history compute by turning context length into a first-class memory budget.
Courses & assignments
Dependency-authoritative learning units.
Casebook
Reported facts and course reconstructions.