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confirmedPython · CPUInference & servingJuly 6, 2026

the question

How does the KV cache grow with context, and when does it overtake the weights?

what came out

28 KB/token for the 1.5B, 12 KB/token for the 0.5B -- validated against the actual key-projection tensor, not estimated. A footnote at short context (0.06x weights at 2k) but it scales to model-size memory by long context. All three pre-registered predictions held; the config KV dim matched the tensor exactly.

method & receipts

  • Result: confirmed
  • Pre-registered the prediction was written down and committed before the run.
  • Reproducible one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • Independently reviewed an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
  • Machine-readable claims every reported number, in a checkable file.
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/kvmemory