arXiv Computer Vision

NanoKV: High-Ratio KV Cache Compression for Autoregressive 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 Computer Vision
Aug 31

DensityKV: Density-Guided KV Cache Compression for Long Video Generation

DensityKV is a training‑free strategy for managing the historical key‑value (KV) cache in autoregressive video diffusion models. It creates a separate token‑level KV bank for each attention head and uses Soft‑Riesz density to measure and limit local redundancy among post‑RoPE keys, thereby preventing the KV archive from growing indefinitely. Experiments on three video generation backbones demonstrate that, with the same KV capacity limit, DensityKV improves long‑horizon consistency and generation stability while keeping persistent storage bounded regardless of rollout length.

By Wenqu Zhao, Xuemin Chi, Xin Zhang, Guoqing Ma, Baorun Li, Jianjie Fang, Peizhi Tang, Chen Gao, Wei Wu
arXiv AI
6d ago

GAAC: Lossless KV Compression for Bandwidth-Efficient LLM Inference on Personal Devices

The paper introduces GAAC, a lossless key‑value (KV) compression method for large language model inference on personal devices. GAAC encodes BF16 exponents with per‑channel base‑plus‑offset codes, adapts code widths across small groups, and reconstructs KV tiles on the fly to avoid full‑cache decompression. Experiments show 1.4× compression for BF16 KV, speedups of up to 1.27× in decode attention, and a 26% reduction in resident KV memory while boosting throughput on NVIDIA and Apple hardware.

By Yipin Guo, Arun M George, Siddharth Joshi
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 Machine Learning
Jul 3

The risk of KV cache compression

arXiv:2607. 01520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer inference on long sequences is expensive because softmax attention repeatedly reads from a large KV cache.

By Lukas Haverbeck, Carmen Amo Alonso, Andres Felipe Posada-Moreno, Sebastian Trimpe, Marco Pavone
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Minima-KV: Retention-Preserving KV Cache Compression with Mixed-Format Paged Attention

Minima-KV introduces a retention‑preserving hierarchy for mixed‑format paged attention that keeps recent and protected anchor pages in FP8 while older pages are compressed into packed TQ3, allowing every live‑request page to remain addressable. The approach uses format‑specific kernels and a globally normalized online‑softmax merge to compute partial attention states, enabling direct heterogeneous decoding without a dense shadow cache. Experiments on Qwen3.6‑27B on a 96‑GB NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU show 3.50× compression over BF16 and 1.75× over FP8, with minimal impact on performance across long‑context benchmarks.

By Sergii Kozyrev (Minima AI, Inc), Davyd Maiboroda (Minima AI, Inc)