[WIP] [GSOC] KV Caching for LLM inference #27205
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This PR Introduces new
dnn::ArgKind
:DNN_ARG_CACHED
. This can be used to store cache of dynamic size, which persists between runs of a net.The cache management (allocation, growing, writing) is intended to be performed directly from the layers.
The memory is organized in pages, where each page is a
Mat
.Caching is particularly useful for LLM inference, where Key and Value tokens are reused for generating subsequent tokens. The KV Caching will be added to attention layer.
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Patch to opencv_extra has the same branch name.
Reference: #27176