arXiv AI

STAR-KV: Low-Rank KV Cache Compression via Soft Thresholding for Adaptive Rank Control

arXiv:2606. 08382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank projection has emerged as a promising approach for compressing the KV cache by exploiting hidden-dimension redundancy.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

STaR-KV: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Re-weighting for KV Cache Compression in GUI Vision-Language Models

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 AI
Jun 4

Stochastic Sparse Attention for Memory-Bound Inference

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 Machine Learning
Jul 3

The risk of KV cache compression

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