arXiv Machine Learning By Mufei Li, Shikun Liu, Dongqi Fu, Haoyu Wang, Yinglong Xia, Hong Li, Hong Yan, Pan Li

KVEraser: Learning to Steer KV Cache for Efficient Localized Context Erasing

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arXiv:2606. 17034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-hoc context erasing over the KV cache is challenging because a local edit has a global consequence: once a span has been processed, its influence propagates into the cached states of all subsequent tokens.

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