arXiv Computation and Language

Last But Not Least: Boundary Attention CalibratiON for Multimodal KV Cache Compression

arXiv AI
Jul 28

MM-ShiftKV: Decode-Aware Prefill-Stage KV Selection for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 22586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Key-Value (KV) caching is essential for efficient inference in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet its memory footprint grows linearly with context length and becomes a major bottleneck due to the large number of visual tokens.

By Jinsong Shu, Chenyang Wu, Zhongle Xie, Baokun Wang, Lidan Shou
arXiv AI
1d ago

VisCache: Visual KV Cache Pruning for Efficient Vision Large Language Model Inference

VisCache introduces a two-stage, plug‑and‑play framework for pruning visual key‑value caches in Vision Large Language Models without retraining. The first stage filters out temporally redundant keyframes, while the second stage, PruneKV, applies a parabolic layer‑wise budget and asymmetric update to selectively prune keys and fuse values, preserving essential context. Experiments show up to 2.35× speedup and significant memory savings with only 19–28% of the original cache retained, outperforming existing baselines.

By Lyuke Wang, Zhuo Li, Guangxu Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

RaBitQCache: Rotated Binary Quantization for KVCache in Long Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 31519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context Large Language Model inference is severely bottlenecked by the massive Key-Value (KV) cache, yet existing sparse attention methods often suffer from static fixed-budget (Top-k) retrieval or rely on proxy scores that are computationally expensive and biased.

By Wenhao Li, Jinhao Dong, Hailin Zhang, Wenhang Shi, Wei Lu, Xiaoyong Du