arXiv:2608. 04074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM decoding reads the key-value (KV) cache at every step.
By Samuel Fern\'andez-Mendui\~na, Amir Ziashahabi, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, Salman Avestimehr
arXiv:2607. 20538v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context Transformer inference increasingly relies on KV-cache compression or quantization.
By Yitao Jiang, Yaoqing Yang, Luyang Zhao, Muhao Chen, Devin Balkcom
arXiv:2609.38121v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: KV cache memory and bandwidth costs grow with context length and batch size, which limits efficient long-context inference. To address this bottleneck,...
By Jiale Chen, Vage Egiazarian, Eldar Kurti\'c, Torsten Hoefler, Dan Alistarh
HyQuant introduces a hybrid-precision quantization framework for large language model (LLM) attention modules. It quantizes most attention states to low-bit formats while preserving a small set of vertical‑line tokens and local‑window states in full precision, guided by lightweight attention‑pattern signals. This design achieves near‑lossless accuracy across tasks while improving memory and hardware efficiency.
By Jiatong Ding, Bingxin Xing, Yu Zhang, Dian Ding, Xiaodong Yi, Xianbin Ouyang, Feihu Zhou, Kun Zhang, Zhenyu Guo, Hao Pan, Guangtao Xue, Yiming Zhang
arXiv:2505. 18231v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) inference is typically memory-intensive, especially when processing large batch sizes and long sequences, due to the large size of key-value (KV) cache.
By Donghyun Son, Euntae Choi, Sungjoo Yoo
arXiv:2609.36760v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) enables expressive multi-head attention with compact caches for its content and decoupled RoPE paths, yet cache memor...
By Zunhai Su, Yuxuan Sun, Jianchao Tan, Tao Zhang, Ruihan Hu, Yuchen Xie, Xunliang Cai, Ngai Wong