Adding support for BlockedKV attention in CasualLM models #618
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Objective:
This PR introduces the KV blocking technique for CausalLM models where the K/V cache is read and processed block by block in the attention computation. Number of desired KV blocks are defined at model initialization in the "from_pretrained" call to export the ONNX with required number of KV blocks. As a result, the following changes are introduced:
Changes:
Please review and feel free to suggest changes and tests.