Long chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories in large language model (LLM) reasoning cause severe inference bottlenecks due to rapid key-value (KV) cache growth. Current decoding-time compression methods mitigate this issue via token eviction, but typically assume a uniform budget distribution across all layers and heads.
arXiv:2606. 11164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories in large language model (LLM) reasoning cause severe inference bottlenecks due to rapid key-value (KV) cache growth.
By Wenhao Liu, Hao Shi, Yunhe Li, Weizhi Fei, Xiangyuan Wang, Mengzhe Ruan, Hanxu Hou, Peisong Wang, Linqi Song, Shuang Qiu
arXiv:2602. 03203v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning abilities by producing long reasoning traces.
By Zican Dong, Peiyu Liu, Junyi Li, Zhipeng Chen, Han Peng, Shuo Wang, Wayne Xin Zhao
arXiv:2608. 04771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) excel on complex tasks through long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but their lengthy intermediate steps cause severe overthinking that inflates inference cost.
By Qiyuan Zhu, Dezhi Li, Pengyu Cheng, Tianle Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Ruijie Shen, Hao Gu, Sida Lin, Zirui Liu, Jiacheng Liu, Sirui Han
arXiv:2602. 08585v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given the quadratic complexity of attention, KV cache eviction is vital to accelerate model inference.
By Ziyao Tang, Pengkun Jiao, Xinhang Chen, Wei Liu, Shiyong Li, Jingjing Chen
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) excel on complex tasks through long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but their lengthy intermediate steps cause severe overthinking that inflates inference cost. KV-cache compression is a common solution, yet existing reasoning-oriented methods apply a uniform policy across the trajectory and judge compression only by what it removes from the cache.