arXiv:2606. 13392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long-context capability is becoming indispensable for frontier LLMs: agentic workflows, repository-scale code reasoning, and persistent memory all require the model to jointly attend over hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens, yet the quadratic cost of softmax attention makes this untenable at deployment scale.
By Xunhao Lai, Weiqi Xu, Yufeng Yang, Qiaorui Chen, Yang Xu, Lunbin Zeng, Xiaolong Li, Haohai Sun, Haichao Zhu, Vito Zhang, Pengyu Zhao
arXiv:2606. 26666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly limited by key-value (KV) cache movement rather than dense matrix multiplication.
By Muhammad Ahmed
arXiv:2603. 06642v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Test-Time Training (TTT) language models replace the KV-cache with fast weights updated during inference, achieving O(1) memory but suffering catastrophic failure on exact-recall tasks.
By Swamynathan V P
arXiv:2606. 05875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language model (LLM) answer quality by grounding generation in external evidence, but processing retrieved contexts makes the prefill stage a dominant serving cost.
By Jianxin Yan, Wangze Ni, Zhenxin Li, Jiabao Jin, Zhitao Shen, Haoyang Li, Jia Zhu, Peng Cheng, Xuemin Lin, Lei Chen, Kui Ren
Autoregressive large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly limited by key-value (KV) cache movement rather than dense matrix multiplication. Modern paged-attention systems reduce KV-cache fragmentation and mature kernels such as FlashInfer provide highly optimized native-paged decode attention.
arXiv:2606. 30709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical Global Attention (HGA) is a drop-in replacement for dense causal attention in pretrained long-context transformers.
By Woernle Frank, Fedosov Vladimir, Grinenko Artemiy
arXiv:2604. 26968v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Key-value (KV) cache memory management is the primary bottleneck limiting throughput and cost-efficiency in large-scale GPU inference serving.
By Sanjeev Rao Ganjihal
arXiv:2606. 09079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional LLMs keep the full KV cache loaded during decoding, causing a severe GPU memory bottleneck for ultra-long context serving.
By Yan Wang, Qifan Zhang, Jiachen Yu, Tian Liang, Dongyang Ma, Xiang Hu, Zibo Lin, Chunyang Li, Zhichao Wang, Jia Li, Yujiu Yang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
arXiv:2606. 04511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse attention reduces compute and memory bandwidth for long-context LLM inference.
By Yaosheng Fu, Guangxuan Xiao, Xin Dong, Song Han, Oreste Villa
arXiv:2606. 28876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language models often conflate two different goals: compressing history into an efficient state, and maintaining reliable long-term memory.
By Junyi Zou, Avrova Donz
arXiv:2607. 25583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and low-bit quantization are now standard tools for adapting language models under tight compute budgets, yet their interaction is most often studied on billion-parameter models where the design space is expensive to explore.
By Mahendra Singh Rathor, Anagheem Azzam
arXiv:2606. 24033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing low-bit KV-cache quantizers often treat each cached key as a flat vector.
By Fengfeng Liang, Yuechen Zhang, Jiaya Jia