arXiv:2608.30963v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Modern large language model (LLM) serving systems increasingly operate over repeated or shared context, yet each model typically performs its own pre...
By Yi Li, Dongming Jiang, Yi Zhao, Bingzhe Li
arXiv:2609.32259v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent multi-agent LLM systems increasingly combine heterogeneous models for specialized agent roles. However, text-based communication requires ea...
By Vincent-Daniel Yun, Woosang Lim, Haneul Yoo, Sungjoo Yoo, Murali Annavaram, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
RaReCache is a framework that allows a large target language model to decode accurately from a KV cache prefilled by a much smaller source model by selectively recomputing only critical token positions. It identifies these positions using a rank disagreement metric that scores tokens based on the energy of their mapped KV in output directions weakly supported by calibration data. Across two model families and five benchmarks, RaReCache achieves up to a 3.04× prefill speedup and significantly reduces prefill latency while maintaining 95–99% of target accuracy with a 30–40% recompute budget.
By Sreetama Sarkar, Saptarshi Mitra, Sitao Huang, Souvik Kundu, Peter A. Beerel
CacheBridge is a method for efficiently transferring key‑value (KV) caches between large language models (LLMs) in a multi‑model system. It replaces the full‑head mapping approach by matching each target KV head to a single source head, weighting reconstruction errors by causal attention sensitivity, and building weighted sufficient statistics with a fused GPU kernel. The technique achieves comparable or better accuracy to full‑head mapping while reducing mapper storage by up to eight‑fold, accelerating application by up to three‑times, and cutting construction time dramatically.
By Xingyu Qu, Siyuan Lu, Zhiyu Chen, Sheng Wang, Tao Lin
The paper addresses the challenge of long input contexts in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, where concatenating many retrieved chunks increases prefill workload and time to first token (TTFT). It proposes a dual strategy: fine‑tuning the model to be aware of KV cache concatenation and selectively recomputing only part of the KV caches. Experiments on the RULER benchmark show that for a 124k‑token input, this combined method boosts the RULER score by 9.7 points over a baseline that recomputes caches only, while cutting TTFT by 80% compared with full attention.
By Fumihiko Tachibana, Daisuke Miyashita, Jun Deguchi
arXiv:2607. 01831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context inference is increasingly common in large language model (LLM) serving, driven by retrieval-augmented generation and agentic systems.
By Wenchen Han, Gingfung Matthew Yeung, Marco Barletta, William Toner, Amory Hoste, Adam Barker
arXiv:2602.08005v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Efficient long-context inference faces two coupled bottlenecks: KV-cache memory grows linearly with context length, while attention computati...
By Jitai Hao, Qiang Huang, Yaowei Wang, Min Zhang, Jun Yu
arXiv:2608. 08684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM inference is bottlenecked by KV cache memory, yet distributing a limited cache budget across layers remains challenging.
By Dongjie Xu, Kai Qian, Julius, Weijie Shi, Yuxuan Sun, Minghua Tang, Fenglei Jin, Hanchi Dong, Jiajie Xu
arXiv:2606. 06467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context inference in modern LLMs is increasingly constrained by decoding efficiency, especially in reasoning-heavy settings where models generate long intermediate chains of thought.
By Yutao Sun, Yanqi Zhang, Li Dong, Jianyong Wang, Furu Wei
arXiv:2609.36722v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents repeatedly load reusable content, such as skills, documents, and memory entries, into the current context. Re-encodin...
By Xinghao Chen, Junnan Dong, Cai Ke, Chak Tou Leong, Haocheng Sun, Keyu Chen, Siyu An, Ruizhi Qiao, Xing Sun, Wenjie Li, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv:2609.37988v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As the context size of text processed with an LLM grows, the size of KV caches can outstrip the memory allocated for the original model weights. This i...
By Joao Monteiro, Louis B\'ethune, Anastasiia Filippova, Sonia Laguna, David Grangier, Marco Cuturi
arXiv:2605. 22863v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents today communicate via text, which incurs considerable latency and information loss due to the need to autoregressively decode the sharer model's state and encode at the receiver model.
By Maximillian Rossi, Prajwal Raghunath, Eugene Wu