def _concatenate_to_cache(self, key, value, query, attention_mask):
        """
        This function takes projected key, value states from a single input token and concatenates the states to cached
        states from previous steps. This function is slighly adapted from the official Flax repository:
        https://github.com/google/flax/blob/491ce18759622506588784b4fca0e4bf05f8c8cd/flax/linen/attention.py#L252
        """
        # detect if we're initializing by absence of existing cache data.
        is_initialized = self.has_variable("cache", "cached_key")
        cached_key = self.variable("cache", "cached_key", jnp.zeros, key.shape, key.dtype)
        cached_value = self.variable("cache", "cached_value", jnp.zeros, value.shape, value.dtype)
        cache_index = self.variable("cache", "cache_index", lambda: jnp.array(0, dtype=jnp.int32))

        if is_initialized:
            *batch_dims, max_length, num_heads, depth_per_head = cached_key.value.shape
            # update key, value caches with our new 1d spatial slices
            cur_index = cache_index.value
            indices = (0,) * len(batch_dims) + (cur_index, 0, 0)
            key = lax.dynamic_update_slice(cached_key.value, key, indices)
            value = lax.dynamic_update_slice(cached_value.value, value, indices)
            cached_key.value = key
            cached_value.value = value
            num_updated_cache_vectors = query.shape[1]
            cache_index.value = cache_index.value + num_updated_cache_vectors
            # causal mask for cached decoder self-attention: our single query position should only attend to those key positions that have already been generated and cached, not the remaining zero elements.
            pad_mask = jnp.broadcast_to(
                jnp.arange(max_length) < cur_index + num_updated_cache_vectors,
                tuple(batch_dims) + (1, num_updated_cache_vectors, max_length),
            )
            attention_mask = combine_masks(pad_mask, attention_mask)
        return key, value, attention_mask

        This function takes projected key, value states from a single input token and concatenates the states to cached
        states from previous steps. This function is slighly adapted from the official Flax repository:
        https://github.com/google/flax/blob/491ce18759622506588784b4fca0e4bf05f8c8cd/flax/linen/attention.py#L252
        
dpkd/transformers/src/transformers/models/blenderbot/modeling_flax_blenderbot.py