arXiv AI By Priyansh Bhatnagar, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, Se-Hyun Yang, SeungJae Lee, Jungwook Choi, Mingu Kang

STAR-KV: Low-Rank KV Cache Compression via Soft Thresholding for Adaptive Rank Control

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arXiv:2606. 08382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank projection has emerged as a promising approach for compressing the KV cache by exploiting hidden-dimension redundancy.

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