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COMPEL Glossary / semantic-caching
Semantic caching
A caching strategy in which cache hits are determined by semantic similarity to prior queries rather than exact-string match — typically implemented by embedding the query and performing nearest-neighbour search over a cache of past query-response pairs.
What this means in practice
Trades correctness risk (false hits) for cost and latency savings; requires calibrated similarity thresholds and invalidation.
Synonyms
semantic cache , similarity-based caching
See also
- Prompt caching — An inference optimisation that caches the attention key-value state for a prompt prefix so that subsequent requests sharing the same prefix skip re-processing.
- Vector store — A governed index of embeddings — numeric vector representations of text, image, or multimodal content — that supports similarity search used by retrieval-augmented generation.
- Embedding model — A model that maps text, images, or multimodal content to dense vector representations used for retrieval, clustering, and similarity search.