# **🚀 Model-Specific Cache Classes in 🤗 Transformers**  

## **📌 What are Model-Specific Cache Classes?**  
While most transformer models can use **generic caching mechanisms** (e.g., **Static Cache, Offloaded Cache, Sliding Window Cache**), **some models require custom cache implementations** to efficiently store and retrieve past key-value pairs.  

✔ **Model-specific caches** are designed for architectures with unique attention mechanisms.  
✔ **Only compatible with specific models** (cannot use generic cache classes).  
✔ **Optimized for inference efficiency and reduced memory footprint.**  

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## **🔹 Why Do Some Models Need Custom Cache Classes?**  
Certain architectures use specialized techniques for handling past key-value (KV) states, such as:  
- **Hybrid Key-Value Storage** (e.g., Gemma2 models).  
- **State-Space Models** instead of traditional attention (e.g., Mamba architecture).  
- **Non-standard attention mechanisms** that require custom caching strategies.  

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## **🛠️ Examples of Model-Specific Cache Classes**
### **1️⃣ `HybridCache` → For Gemma2 Models**
- **Gemma2 models** use a **hybrid KV storage mechanism** to optimize memory and computation.  
- **`HybridCache`** is the only compatible cache class for **Gemma2 models**.  

**💻 Example Usage for Gemma2 with `HybridCache`:**  
```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM, HybridCache

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/gemma-2b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("google/gemma-2b", torch_dtype=torch.float16).to("cuda:0")

inputs = tokenizer("The universe is vast and", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# Initialize HybridCache
past_key_values = HybridCache(max_cache_size=1024)

# Generate text with model-specific cache
out = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50, past_key_values=past_key_values)

# Decode output
print(tokenizer.batch_decode(out, skip_special_tokens=True)[0])
```
**📌 Key Notes:**  
✔ **Only works with Gemma2 models** (not compatible with other models).  
✔ **Optimized for long-form text generation** in Gemma models.  
✔ **Uses memory-efficient hybrid caching.**  

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### **2️⃣ `MambaCache` → For Mamba Models**
- **Mamba models** (state-space models) use **state-based memory** instead of traditional attention.  
- **`MambaCache`** handles **recurrent state updates** instead of key-value storage.  

**💻 Example Usage for Mamba with `MambaCache`:**  
```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM, MambaCache

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("state-spaces/mamba-2.8b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("state-spaces/mamba-2.8b", torch_dtype=torch.float16).to("cuda:0")

inputs = tokenizer("Once upon a time, in a faraway land,", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# Initialize MambaCache for state tracking
past_key_values = MambaCache(state_size=512)

# Generate text using Mamba's specialized cache
out = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50, past_key_values=past_key_values)

# Decode output
print(tokenizer.batch_decode(out, skip_special_tokens=True)[0])
```
**📌 Key Notes:**  
✔ **Only works with Mamba models** (not compatible with transformers).  
✔ **Handles state-space memory instead of key-value caching.**  
✔ **Optimized for sequence modeling tasks.**  

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## **📌 When to Use Model-Specific Cache vs. Generic Cache?**  

| **Cache Type**                     | **Best For** | **Example Models** |
|------------------------------------|-------------|-------------------|
| **Static Cache** (`static`)        | Standard transformer models | Llama 2, GPT-2, Falcon |
| **Offloaded Cache** (`offloaded`)  | Large models with memory constraints | Llama 65B, Falcon 180B |
| **Sliding Window Cache** (`sliding_window`) | Models with sliding window attention | Mistral, Gemma |
| **Sink Cache** (`SinkCache`)       | Infinite-length generation | Llama 2, GPT-4 |
| **Encoder-Decoder Cache** (`EncoderDecoderCache`) | Encoder-decoder models | Whisper, T5 |
| **Hybrid Cache** (`HybridCache`)   | Gemma2 models | Gemma-2B, Gemma-7B |
| **Mamba Cache** (`MambaCache`)     | State-space models | Mamba-2.8B |

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## **🚀 Summary: Why Model-Specific Caches Matter**
✔ **Designed for architectures with unique attention/storage mechanisms** (e.g., Gemma, Mamba).  
✔ **More efficient than generic caches** for supported models.  
✔ **Only compatible with their respective models** (not interchangeable).  
✔ **Key for optimizing memory usage, speed, and inference efficiency.**  

🚀 **Use model-specific caches to maximize performance for specialized architectures!**