SGD-KV is a head‑aware framework for compressing key‑value caches in large language models. It uses a chunk‑summarization diagnostic task to identify attention heads that specialize in hierarchical information aggregation, allowing the KV cache budget to be allocated based on each head’s summarization score. Experiments on Qwen2.5‑7B‑1M and Qwen3‑32B show state‑of‑the‑art performance on up to 1M‑token contexts while cutting KV cache memory usage by up to 75%.
By Zeyu Liu, Woomin Song, Xuandi Fu, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Vivek Govindan, Aram Galstyan, Sravan Babu Bodapati, Srikanth Ronanki
arXiv:2607. 16213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) generate text autoregressively, relying on a key-value (KV) cache whose memory footprint grows linearly with context length, creating a major bottleneck.
By Soumia Bouyahiaoui, Manel Kara laouar, Aicha Boutorh, Mohamed Hadj Ameur
Long-context large language model (LLM) inference is increasingly constrained by the memory footprint and decoding cost of key-value (KV) caches, limiting sustainable deployment on resource-constrained hardware. Existing KV cache eviction methods typically apply heuristic token scoring over all heads in GQA-based LLMs.
arXiv:2606. 24467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context large language model (LLM) inference is increasingly constrained by the memory footprint and decoding cost of key-value (KV) caches, limiting sustainable deployment on resource-constrained hardware.
By Xiaolin Lin, Jingcun Wang, Olga Kondrateva, Yiyu Shi, Bing Li, Grace Li Zhang
arXiv:2607. 24331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the inference phase of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires handling long context windows, the Key-Value (KV) cache initially appears to address this challenge but eventually becomes a significant bottleneck as the context window continues to grow.
By Tan T. Nguyen, Quan V. Dang
arXiv:2606. 29563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at complex tasks like question answering and summarization, thanks to their ability to handle long-context inputs.
By Shuvendu Roy, Mengyao Zhai, Hossein Hajimirsadeghi, Golnoosh Samei
arXiv:2606. 09508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing sparse attention and KV cache compression methods for long-context LLM inference typically apply fixed sparsity patterns or uniform budgets across all attention heads, overlooking the substantial variation in attention behavior among heads and contexts.
By Zhanchao Xu, Haoyang Li, Qingfa Xiao, Fei Teng, Chen Jason Zhang, Lei Chen, Qing Li
arXiv:2606. 21848v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer architectures form the foundation of modern natural language processing, making it crucial to address the efficiency and scalability limitations of the standard QKV attention mechanism.
By Xin Gao, Xingming Xu
arXiv:2607. 05399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model serving is increasingly limited by KV-cache growth under long-context workloads, yet existing KV-cache compression techniques are difficult to compare because they were evaluated on different models, tasks, budgets, and serving stacks.
By Nikita Agrawal, Ruben Mayer
arXiv:2608.30295v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in handling long-context tasks, but processing such long contexts remains challeng...
By Haoyun Jiang, Haolin Li, Jianwei Zhang, Fei Huang, Qiang Hu, Minmin Sun, Shuai Xiao, Yong Li, Junyang Lin, Jiangchao Yao
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
arXiv:2606.14782v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong vision-language reasoning but incur large KV caches and high decoding latency with lo...
By Tianhao Chen, Yuheng Wu, Kelu Yao, Xiaogang Xu, Xiaobin Hu, Dongman Lee