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:2606. 07878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The KV cache is the memory bottleneck of long-horizon language model deployment.
By Charles O'Neill, Alex Sandomirsky, Harry Partridge, Mudith Jayasekara, Max Kirkby
arXiv:2608. 08878v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks, but their Key-Value (KV) cache grows linearly with sequence length, creating a severe memory bottleneck for long-context inference.
By Asaad Althoubi
arXiv:2511. 05313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The substantial inference costs of attention in transformers motivated the development of efficient sequence mixers: namely sparse and sliding window attention, convolutions and linear attention.
By Jatin Prakash, Aahlad Puli, Rajesh Ranganath
FlashLoop is a training‑free inference framework for Looped Transformers that reduces cross‑loop redundancy by employing token‑sparse updates, sparse attention, and KV‑residual quantization. It exploits observations that, as loops progress, state changes concentrate on a small token subset, attention differences are dominated by a sparse key subset, and KV residuals become amenable to low‑bit quantization. The method achieves lossless accuracy with up to 1.64× speedup and 6× KV‑cache memory reduction across several Looped Transformer models.
By Wanqi Yang, Shiwei Liu
arXiv:2608. 08888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive transformers compute along two axes: horizontally across generated tokens, and vertically through model depth.
By Xi Wang, Ziyang Cai, Zheng Zhan, Harry Dong, Ying Fan, Gustavo de Rosa, Tim Pearce, John Langford