arXiv:2607. 22389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid adoption of long-context large language models (LLMs), the continuously growing KV cache during decoding has become the critical memory bottleneck.
By Chao Fang, Jun Yin, Man Shi, Marian Verhelst
arXiv:2502. 16886v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To reduce memory consumption during LLM inference, a handful of methods have been proposed for KV cache pruning.
By Xuanfan Ni, Liyan Xu, Chenyang Lyu, Longyue Wang, Mo Yu, Lemao Liu, Fandong Meng, Jie Zhou, Piji Li
arXiv:2606. 24033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing low-bit KV-cache quantizers often treat each cached key as a flat vector.
By Fengfeng Liang, Yuechen Zhang, Jiaya Jia
arXiv:2606. 01790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-model-based graphical user interface (GUI) agents have shown broad automation capabilities, yet deployment is bottlenecked by a key-value (KV) cache that grows linearly with interaction steps.
By Yuhang Han, Wenzheng Yang, Yujie Chen, Xiangqi Jin, Yaojie Zhang, Siteng Huang, Linfeng Zhang
arXiv:2605. 01910v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive decoding becomes bandwidth-limited at long contexts, as generating each token requires reading all $n_k$ key and value vectors from KV cache.
By Kyle Lee, Corentin Delacour, Kevin Callahan-Coray, Kyle Jiang, Can Yaras, Samet Oymak, Tathagata Srimani, Kerem Y. Camsari
arXiv:2505. 18231v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) inference is typically memory-intensive, especially when processing large batch sizes and long sequences, due to the large size of key-value (KV) cache.
By Donghyun Son, Euntae Choi, Sungjoo Yoo
arXiv:2607. 12550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache has become the dominant memory cost of transformer inference.
By Rahul Krishnan, Volker Schulz
arXiv:2607. 16248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context large language model inference relies on the KV cache to avoid redundant attention computation, but incurs high memory and bandwidth overheads.
By Gradwell Dzikanyanga, Yanqi Pan, Weihao Yang, Donglei Wu, Wen Xia, Hao Huang
arXiv:2605. 06675v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models cache all previously computed key-value (KV) pairs during generation, and this KV cache grows linearly with sequence length, making it a primary memory bottleneck for serving.
By Fei Zuo, Zikang Zhou, Hao Cong, Xiaoyan Xi, Ho Fai Leung
arXiv:2607. 15498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache is the main memory bottleneck in long-context large language model (LLM) inference.
By Shahrzad Esmat, Dhawal Shah, Ali Jannesari
arXiv:2608. 14191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache stores information from past tokens and is a major memory bottleneck in long-context inference.
By Hannah Laus, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, Hao Wang, Flavio du Pin Calmon, Felix Krahmer
arXiv:2607. 01520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer inference on long sequences is expensive because softmax attention repeatedly reads from a large KV cache.
By Lukas Haverbeck, Carmen Amo Alonso, Andres Felipe Posada-Moreno, Sebastian Trimpe, Marco Pavone