arXiv:2609.17346v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: To answer questions outside of their pre-training data, large language models (LLMs) need access to new information, which can be presented in the co...
By Nathana\"el Carraz Rakotonirina, Momchil Hardalov, Gonzalo Iglesias, Adri\`a de Gispert
The paper addresses the challenge of long input contexts in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, where concatenating many retrieved chunks increases prefill workload and time to first token (TTFT). It proposes a dual strategy: fine‑tuning the model to be aware of KV cache concatenation and selectively recomputing only part of the KV caches. Experiments on the RULER benchmark show that for a 124k‑token input, this combined method boosts the RULER score by 9.7 points over a baseline that recomputes caches only, while cutting TTFT by 80% compared with full attention.
By Fumihiko Tachibana, Daisuke Miyashita, Jun Deguchi
arXiv:2607. 28069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context retrieval and agentic workloads repeatedly reuse the same documents under changing instructions, histories, and document orders.
By Hui Xie, Peng Xiao, Yutong Deng, Shuoran Dou, Jian Yang, Jinyang Guo
arXiv:2608.23843v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-context inference in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly limited by the memory required for the key-value (KV) cache. KV cache compressio...
By Zizhong Wang, Jieying Wang, Zhao Zhang, Jiajia Li
arXiv:2607. 05399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model serving is increasingly limited by KV-cache growth under long-context workloads, yet existing KV-cache compression techniques are difficult to compare because they were evaluated on different models, tasks, budgets, and serving stacks.
By Nikita Agrawal, Ruben Mayer
arXiv:2607. 16213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) generate text autoregressively, relying on a key-value (KV) cache whose memory footprint grows linearly with context length, creating a major bottleneck.
By Soumia Bouyahiaoui, Manel Kara laouar, Aicha Boutorh, Mohamed Hadj Ameur
arXiv:2609.37988v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As the context size of text processed with an LLM grows, the size of KV caches can outstrip the memory allocated for the original model weights. This i...
By Joao Monteiro, Louis B\'ethune, Anastasiia Filippova, Sonia Laguna, David Grangier, Marco Cuturi
arXiv:2609.05760v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present RAGMark, a modular benchmarking framework for advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems targeting small-scale multi-GPU enviro...
By Zlatan Feric, Amir Taherin, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang, Jennifer Dy, David Kaeli
arXiv:2607. 27600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Key-value (KV) cache management through compression and eviction strategies has emerged as an important research direction in recent years.
By Stephen Gould, Anton van den Hengel
arXiv:2609.39329v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-context inference with Large Language Models (LLMs) is bottlenecked by the linearly growing memory of the key-value (KV) cache. Existing compressi...
By Chanryeol Lee, Chanhyuk Lee, Yeonwoo Choi, Donggyun Kim, Seunghoon Hong
Multi-turn Large Language Model (LLM) serving is critical for consistent user experiences, yet the linear growth of the Key-Value (KV) cache imposes significant pressure on GPU memory and bandwidth. Non-uniform KV compression effectively preserves more information by considering the individual importance of each KV cache.
arXiv:2608. 07458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent optimization studies on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have exploited chunk-level KV cache reuse to avoid processing long retrieved contexts for higher efficiency, while significant information redundancy and noise still remain in the coarse-grained chunks.
By Gyuwan Kim, Cheoneum Park, Tao Yang