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Caching LLM Responses
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Caching LLM Responses

MediumPython

Problem

Coding: implement a cache for LLM responses.

Asked in the Coding round stage. Listed as 'LLM cache' in the coding-round bullet.

Implement llm_cache(operations, capacity). Each operation is ['put', key, response] or ['get', key]. Return a list containing the response for every get, or None for a miss. A get marks the key as most recently used. When full, inserting a new key evicts the least recently used key. Updating an existing key also makes it most recently used.

Constraints

  • 1 <= capacity <= 1,000
  • 0 <= operations.length <= 1,000
  • Each operation is either ['get', key] or ['put', key, response]
  • Keys and responses are strings
  • Every key used by a get operation was previously inserted or may be absent from the cache

Function Signature

def llm_cache(operations, capacity):
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