arXiv AI
Aug 6
Spend Bits Where Queries Look: KV Cache Vector Quantization with Attention-Preserving Transforms
arXiv:2608. 04074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM decoding reads the key-value (KV) cache at every step.
AVQ-Attention: Adaptive Vector-Quantized Attention
arXiv:2607. 12789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ complexity of attention over $N$ tokens remains a computational bottleneck in transformer models.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8
AAAC: Activation-Aware Adaptive Codebooks for 4-bit LLM Weight Quantization
arXiv:2605. 08692v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training weight-only quantization to 4 bits is widely used to reduce the memory and compute costs of large language model inference.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
Output-Aware Rotation for INT2 KV-Cache Quantization
arXiv:2608. 02691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache has become a major memory and bandwidth bottleneck in long-context large language model inference, making ultra-low-bit quantization increasingly important.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29
Simplified Sparse Attention via Gist Tokens
arXiv:2604. 20920v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse attention can reduce the cost of long-context inference, but most variants introduce new architectural components.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1
RaBitQCache: Rotated Binary Quantization for KVCache in Long Context LLM Inference
arXiv:2606. 31519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context Large Language Model inference is severely bottlenecked by the massive Key-Value (KV) cache, yet existing sparse attention methods often suffer from static fixed-budget (Top-k) retrieval or rely on proxy scores that are computationally expensive and biased.
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago
KV Cache Compression Through the Lens of Transform Coding
arXiv:2608. 14191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache stores information from past tokens and is a major memory bottleneck in long-context inference.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
QuBLAST: A Framework for Quantizing Large Language Models with Block-Level Compression Approach and Activation Scaling Strategy
arXiv:2606. 04620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have become the state-of-the-art algorithms for solving NLP tasks.
arXiv AI
Jun 18
Dual Dimensionality for Local and Global Attention
arXiv:2606. 18587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoder-only Transformers compute attention over the KV cache of preceding tokens.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants
arXiv:2606. 04032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers have become the standard solution for various AI tasks, with the query, key, and value (QKV) attention formulation playing a central role.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3
QTALE: Quantization-Robust Token-Adaptive Layer Execution for LLMs
arXiv:2602. 10431v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demand substantial computational and memory resources, posing challenges for efficient deployment.
arXiv AI
1d ago
FluxBin: Flexible LUT-based Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference by Algorithm-Kernel Synergy
arXiv:2608. 15602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While binary quantization theoretically promises extreme compression and acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs), existing research often overlooks the necessity of specialized hardware kernels, thus failing to unleash the full acceleration potential due to persistent reliance on expensive floating-point arithmetic or runtime dequantization overheads.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2
GSRQ: Gain-Shape Residual Quantization for Sub-1-bit KV Cache
arXiv:2607. 01065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with extended context windows is increasingly constrained by the linear growth of Key-Value (KV) cache memory.