arXiv Computation and Language

SeKV: Resolution-Adaptive KV Cache with Hierarchical Semantic Memory for Long-Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 31145v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models increasingly operate over long contexts, where the KV cache grows linearly with sequence length and dominates memory during decoding.

arXiv AI
Jul 8

DepthWeave-KV: Token-Adaptive Cross-Layer Residual Factorization for Long-Context KV Cache Compression

arXiv:2607. 06523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context language model inference is increasingly limited by the memory bandwidth and capacity required to store key-value caches, yet existing compression methods often apply uniform budgets across layers or tokens and degrade retrieval when lexical cues and semantic states require different preservation.

By Anna Cordoba, Adam Puente Tercero, Nerea Angulo Hijo, Mar Linares Tercero, Julia Barrientos, Ainhoa Miranda, Jesus Olivera
arXiv AI
Jun 24

CompressKV: Semantic-Retrieval-Guided KV-Cache Compression for Resource-Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

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 AI
Jul 8

FreqDepthKV: Frequency-Guided Depth Sharing for Robust KV Cache Compression in Long-Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2607. 06519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context LLM inference is increasingly limited by the memory and bandwidth cost of KV caches, yet aggressive compression can remove the layer-specific evidence needed for retrieval and multi-step reasoning.

By Anna C\'ordoba, Adam Puente Tercero, Nerea Angulo Hijo, Mar Linares Tercero, Julia Barrientos, Ainhoa Miranda, Jes\'us Olivera
arXiv AI
Sep 3

HeadWiseKV: Budgeted Per-Head Cache Residency for Hybrid Long-Context Language Models

HeadWiseKV is a training‑free framework that compresses the residual global key–value caches of hybrid long‑context language models by assigning each physical KV head a static, multilevel history window. It formulates cache allocation as a restricted operational rate–distortion problem and uses the SeqCalib algorithm to generate per‑head residency policies that account for interactions across layers. In evaluations on four hybrid models, HeadWiseKV preserves near‑full‑KV quality while reducing peak device memory usage by 8.59% at a 112K context length and extending the largest verified context from 114K to 161K.

By Renjie Xie, Juncheng Yang, Aoting Hu, Mingxi Zhang, Liyao Wu, Zheheng Hong, Wei Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Beyond Static RAG: An Adaptive, Tri-Metric Routing Framework for Efficient Long-Context Inference on Commodity GPUs

The paper introduces the Tri‑Metric Router, a deterministic, training‑free policy that chooses among Raw, Neural, and Lexical pipelines for retrieval‑augmented generation on commodity GPUs. It uses three CPU‑side signals—spatial complexity, syntactic density, and type‑token ratio—to balance VRAM headroom and latency, calibrated on LongBench qasper. The method eliminates out‑of‑memory failures and improves alignment and F1 scores compared to always‑on lexical compression without extra VRAM or training costs.

By Saipraveen Vabbilisetty, Ajay Kumar Boddepalli, Deep Narayan Mishra, Shashank Kapadia, Haoan Wang, Anupriya Sharma