arXiv Computer Vision

VAR-Q: Tuning-free KV Cache Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Image and Video Generation

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 12

CORAL-KV: Compact Cross-Layer Prediction and Residual Coding for Autoregressive Video KV Caches

CORAL-KV is a new framework for compressing the key‑value (KV) cache used by autoregressive video diffusion models. It predicts keys and values across cache layers using block‑diagonal‑plus‑low‑rank (block‑DPLR) predictors, then quantizes only the residuals, offering a flexible trade‑off between fidelity and memory usage. In extensive tests on HY‑WorldPlay and MAGI‑1, the reusable configuration outperforms QVG‑4 by up to 4.95 dB PSNR while reducing cache memory by 37–48 %, and the video‑adapted configuration surpasses QVG‑Pro by 3.77 dB PSNR with 33.7 % less memory, all while maintaining comparable latency and reducing temporal discontinuities.

By Albert Ge, Akash Haridas, Utkarsh Saxena, Ruijing Yang, Ian Colbert, Frederic Sala, Vikram Appia, Emad Barsoum
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 15

OScaR: The Occam's Razor for Extreme KV Cache Quantization in LLMs and Beyond

arXiv:2605.19660v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid advancement toward long-context reasoning and multi-modal intelligence has made the memory footprint of the Key-Value (KV) cache a domina...

By Zunhai Su, Rui Yang, Chao Zhang, Yaxiu Liu, Yifan Zhang, Wei Wu, Jing Xiong, Dayou Du, Xialie Zhuang, Yulei Qian, Jianchao Tan, Yuchen Xie, Yik-Chung Wu, Hongxia Yang, Ngai Wong
arXiv AI
Jun 2

STaR-KV: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Re-weighting for KV Cache Compression in GUI Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 01790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-model-based graphical user interface (GUI) agents have shown broad automation capabilities, yet deployment is bottlenecked by a key-value (KV) cache that grows linearly with interaction steps.

By Yuhang Han, Wenzheng Yang, Yujie Chen, Xiangqi Jin, Yaojie Zhang, Siteng Huang, Linfeng Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

D-Quant: Driftable Entropy Coding for KV Cache Quantization

The paper introduces D-Quant, a KV cache quantization framework that addresses the memory bottleneck of large language models by using a drift mechanism to convert entropy-coded representations into fixed-size bitstreams. This approach leverages the non-uniform distribution of KV cache values—after rotation and normalization, they approximate a normal distribution—allowing entropy coding to assign shorter codewords to frequent symbols while maintaining regular memory layouts suitable for parallel attention kernels. D-Quant thus aims to reduce memory footprint and bandwidth usage without sacrificing performance.

By Yi Su, Hong Liu, Guanghua Yu, Jianchen Zhu
arXiv AI
Jun 12

TetherCache: Stabilizing Autoregressive Long-Form Video Generation with Gated Recall and Trusted Alignment

arXiv:2606. 13035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion models provide a natural formulation for streaming and variable-length video generation by conditioning newly generated frames on previously generated content.

By Yu Meng, Xiangyang Luo, Letian Li, Wenyuan Jiang, Chen Gao, Xinlei Chen, Yong Li, Xiao-Ping Zhang