arXiv AI

GraniKV: Asymmetric Granularity KV-Cache Paging for Multi-Agent Systems with Long Shared Prefix

arXiv:2608. 15584v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production paged-serving engines apply uniform paging granularity to the KV cache, even though the two regions of a multi-agent workload have opposite storage requirements: a long shared prefix demands contiguity, while the per-request suffix demands fine-grained allocation.

arXiv AI
Jun 19

UltraQuant: 4-bit KV Caching for Context-Heavy Agents

arXiv:2606. 20474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Context-heavy agents place unusual pressure on the key-value (KV) cache: long prefixes are reused across many short turns, while concurrency determines whether the serving system can keep GPUs utilized.

By Inesh Chakrabarti (Advanced Micro Devices, University of California, Los Angeles), David Limpus (Advanced Micro Devices, Purdue University), Aditi Ghai Rana (Advanced Micro Devices), Bowen Bao (Advanced Micro Devices), Spandan Tiwari (Advanced Micro Devices), Thiago Crepaldi (Advanced Micro Devices), Ashish Sirasao (Advanced Micro Devices)
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 11

MiniPIC: Flexible Position-Independent Caching in <100LOC

Retrieval-augmented and agentic workloads repeatedly prefill recurring predictable structured inputs (which we call "spans") such as documents and code files. Yet, prefix caching in engines such as vLLM cannot reuse their KV entries unless they share identical prefixes with another request, while Position-Independent Caching (PIC) implementations within production-grade inference servers typically either require substantial server code changes or keep KV state outside the server, incurring host-to-device transfer overhead.