Towards Data Science

What Can We Do When Memory Becomes the New Bottleneck in Data Engineering?

How Pandas chunking, Dask, and Polars help process millions of records when adding more compute isn't an option. The post What Can We Do When Memory Becomes the New Bottleneck in Data Engineering?

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

What to Keep, What to Forget: A Rate--Distortion View of Memory Compaction in LLMs and Agents

arXiv:2607. 08032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models, and the agents built on them, spend an ever-growing share of their compute and memory on remembering: caching attention keys and values, carrying long prompts, maintaining recurrent state, and storing what happened in previous turns and sessions.

By Ashwin Gerard Colaco, Nada Lahjouji