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 A runtime control plane that sits above paged KV memory and continuously adjusts allocation, retention, offload, and routing policy according to observed request patterns.
 
+## Key Findings (Latest Results)
+
+### 1. LRU Eviction is Near-Optimal for Single-Pool Prefix Sharing
+Running Bélády (hindsight-optimal) eviction against LRU under memory pressure:
+- **Oracle gap: 0%** across throughput, TTFT, and cache hit rate
+- Implication: APAC's value cannot come from better eviction alone
+
+### 2. Multi-Pool Routing Offers Dramatic Latency Improvements
+Comparing routing policies under memory pressure (2 pools, 128 blocks each, 500 requests):
+
+| Policy | Throughput | p99 TTFT | Cache Hits |
+|--------|-----------|----------|------------|
+| **Oracle** | **89.7 rps** | **76 ms** | 11,468 |
+| Round-robin | 87.5 rps | 964 ms | 61,226 |
+| Random | 85.0 rps | 1097 ms | 67,687 |
+| Least-loaded | 88.1 rps | 1173 ms | 38,525 |
+
+**Key result: Oracle routing reduces p99 TTFT by 92%** (964ms → 76ms)
+
+The oracle routes each request to the pool with the best prefix cache coverage for that request's prefix. This maximizes cache reuse per-pool and dramatically reduces queueing delays.
+
+### 3. Class-Based Routing Can Be Catastrophic
+Routing all shared-prefix requests to a single "hot" pool:
+- **p99 TTFT: 2278ms** (vs 964ms for round-robin)
+- Throughput drops 2% from overload on the hot pool
+
+Implication: Intelligent routing requires per-request prefix analysis, not coarse class-based heuristics.
+
 ## Project Structure
 
 ```
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 ```bash
 pip install -e .
-# Run oracle gap analysis on synthetic workloads
-python -m apac.experiments.oracle_gap --workload all --num-requests 5000 --num-blocks 2048
-# Run with BurstGPT production traces
-python -m apac.experiments.oracle_gap --workload burstgpt --num-requests 10000
+# Run oracle gap analysis on BurstGPT traces
+python -m apac.experiments.oracle_gap --workload burstgpt --block-size 16 --num-blocks 2048
 ```
 
 ## Key Concepts
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 - **Oracle**: Computes Belady-optimal (hindsight) decisions for routing, retention, and offload
 - **Controller**: Online APAC that makes decisions based on observable signals only
 
-## Oracle Gap Analysis
-
-The oracle gap study is the foundational experiment. It measures how much a perfect controller (with full future knowledge) can improve over static policies:
-
-- **Eviction gap**: Bélády-optimal vs LRU eviction
-- **Routing gap**: Optimal pool selection vs round-robin
-- **Retention gap**: Perfect prefix durability vs no retention tags
-- **Admission gap**: Optimal capacity reservation vs no reserve
-
-Early findings: **LRU eviction is near-optimal for prefix-sharing workloads** — the gap for adaptive control comes from routing, admission, and offload dimensions, not eviction alone.
-
 ## Datasets Used
 
 - [BurstGPT](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lzzmm/BurstGPT) — 5.29M rows, Azure OpenAI production traces
 - [WildChat-1M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/WildChat-1M) — 1M timestamped conversations
 - [ShareGPT52K](https://huggingface.co/datasets/RyokoAI/ShareGPT52K) — Length distribution reference
 
-## Built on vLLM Internals
-
-The simulator faithfully models vLLM V1's actual block management:
-- `BlockPool` with hash-based prefix caching and LRU eviction
-- `KVCacheManager.allocate_slots()` / `free()` / `cache_blocks()` semantics
-- Scheduler token budgets with decode-first priority (chunked prefill)
-- `KVEventBatch` (BlockStored/BlockRemoved/AllBlocksCleared) event schema
-- ZMQ PUB/SUB event publishing with replay buffer
-
 ## References
 
 - PagedAttention (vLLM): [arxiv:2309.06180](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180)
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 - Ada-KV: [arxiv:2407.11550](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11550)
 - LMCache: [arxiv:2510.09665](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09665)
 - SGLang RadixAttention: [arxiv:2312.07104](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07104)
-- Marconi: [arxiv:2411.19379](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19379)
-- KVShare: [arxiv:2503.16525](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16525)