arXiv:2609.24298v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: What limits KV-cache compression at extreme bit-rates? We argue that it is not the choice of compression scheme, but how its budget is allocated across...
By Sihyeon Ha, Jaeho Lee, Yo-Seb Jeon
arXiv:2604.11501v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Rank reduction discards dimensions; quantization keeps them at lower precision. Comparing the two requires a choice of what compression shoul...
By Samuel Salfati
The paper introduces JoLT, a training‑free compressor that jointly allocates rank and precision for key‑value (KV) cache compression in long‑context language models. JoLT treats grouped prefill caches as fourth‑order tensors, applies partial Tucker decomposition along token and feature modes, and uses a rotated low‑bit quantizer for residuals, all governed by a single Lagrangian dual under a global byte constraint. Across five models from four architecture families, JoLT achieves 2–3× compression with less than 0.2% perplexity loss, and near‑lossless retrieval accuracy on LLaMA‑3.1‑8B at 64K context up to 3× compression.
By Rahul Krishnan, Volker Schulz
arXiv:2610.03027v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache becomes a major memory bottleneck in long-context LLM inference, placing substantial pressure on memory capacity and bandwid...
By Minsoo Cheong, Donghyun Son, Sungjoo Yoo
arXiv:2607. 22389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid adoption of long-context large language models (LLMs), the continuously growing KV cache during decoding has become the critical memory bottleneck.
By Chao Fang, Jun Yin, Man Shi, Marian Verhelst
The paper introduces D-Quant, a KV cache quantization framework that addresses the memory bottleneck of large language models by using a drift mechanism to convert entropy-coded representations into fixed-size bitstreams. This approach leverages the non-uniform distribution of KV cache values—after rotation and normalization, they approximate a normal distribution—allowing entropy coding to assign shorter codewords to frequent symbols while maintaining regular memory layouts suitable for parallel attention kernels. D-Quant thus aims to reduce memory footprint and bandwidth usage without sacrificing performance.
By Yi Su, Hong Liu, Guanghua Yu, Jianchen Zhu