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[Question]: What are the definitions of the different stages?

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I would like to ask politely, what are the definitions of the different stages here? How to distinguish them? I am a novice in this field

ATTN_KV_TYPES=(
"vllm;dense" # FullAttention
"vllm_minference;dense" "vllm_a_shape;dense" "vllm_tri_shape;dense" # 1) KV Cache Generation Stage
"dense;streamingllm" "dense;snapkv" "dense;pyramidkv" "dense;kivi" # 2) KV Cache Compression Stage
"vllm_blend;dense" # 3) KV Cache Retrieval Stage
"dense;quest" "dense;retr_attn" # 4) KV Cache Loading Stage
)

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