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  1. Dual-QK: Sharp Queries and Flat Keys for Prunable 2-bit KV Caches

    Oct 7, 2026Sunjoo Whang, Jungjun Oh, Minsung Kim +5KV-Cache CompressionKV-Cache Quantization

    KAIST · GIST · Google Research

  2. CHASE: Channel-Aligned Structure Exploitation for Geometry-Aware Model Engineering

    Oct 7, 2026Wei Wang, Wei Jiang, Ziran LiuNeural Network CompressionKV-Cache Compression

    Futurewei Technologies San Jose, CA 95131, USA · Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS) Shanghai, 200433, China

  3. A Self-Pruning Transformer: Extreme KV-Cache Compression with Universal Attention

    Oct 6, 2026Davis Wertheimer, Haochen Shen, Ahan Gupta +6KV-Cache CompressionTransformer Attention

    IBM Research, USA · SSAIL Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  4. Hybrid Latent Attention for Looped Language Models

    Oct 6, 2026Yuhan Chen, Siyuan Zhang, Nan Wang +2Long-Context Language Model InferenceLLM Inference Acceleration

    Virginia Tech · Independent Researcher

  5. OVAL: Output-Aware Local Page Bases for KV Cache Retrieval

    Oct 5, 2026Ashkan Shahbazi, Chayne Thrash, Soheil KolouriLong-Context Language Model InferenceLLM Inference Acceleration

    College of Connected Computing Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA

  6. Behavior-Preserving KV Cache Compression

    Oct 5, 2026Doo Hwan Hwang, Junyoung Jang, Junho Na +2KV-Cache EvictionLLM Inference Acceleration

    Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · KT Corporation, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  7. DeferKV: Rethinking Eviction Timing for One-Shot KV Cache Compression

    Oct 5, 2026Zhe Wang, Jiakai Li, Yujia Sun +2Long-Context Language Model InferenceKV-Cache Eviction

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · Ubiquitous Intelligence and Trusted Services Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, China

  8. The Optimization Landscape of Learning Compacted Context Models

    Oct 5, 2026Thomas Villeneuve, Alex Sandomirsky, Charles O'Neill +2LLM CompressionKV-Cache Compression

    Base Labs

  9. Spend Bytes on Breadth: Precision-Count Trade-offs for Decode-Time KV Compression in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Oct 5, 2026Runguo LiCoT ReasoningKV-Cache Eviction

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  10. EchoPress: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Pruning via Virtual Context Reconstruction

    Sep 30, 2026Jiawei Lin, Saibo Geng, Thomas BourgeatKV-Cache ManagementLLM Inference Acceleration

    EPFL

  11. PatchKV: Weight-Space Compensation of KV Cache

    Sep 30, 2026Chanryeol Lee, Chanhyuk Lee, Yeonwoo Choi +2Long-Context Language Model InferenceLLM Inference Acceleration

    KAIST

  12. SparseEngine: Sparse-First Inference Engine

    Sep 30, 2026Jitai Hao, Quansheng Gu, Qiang Huang +1LLM InferenceLong-Context Language Model Inference

  13. KV-Kaizen: Learning Context-Adaptive Cache Compression Choices

    Sep 29, 2026Joao Monteiro, Louis Béthune, Anastasiia Filippova +3LLM Inference AccelerationLow-Rank Compression

    Apple

  14. ARC-KV: Amortizing Anchor Search for Reconstruction-Based KV Cache Compaction

    Sep 29, 2026Zheyu Shen, Guanhua Wang, Dezhan Tu +5Long-Context Language ModelingKV-Cache Management

    University of Maryland, College Park · Meta

  15. Periodic Weak Spots: Phase Sensitivity from Chunked KV-Cache Compression

    Sep 28, 2026Xingyu Zhu, Pu, Yi +6Long-Context RetrievalKV-Cache Compression

    Luke · ByteDance Seed · University of California, Berkeley

  16. Cartridges++: KV Cache Compression without Off-Context Derailment

    Sep 28, 2026Sonia Laguna, Joao Monteiro, Marco Cuturi +2Memory-Augmented Language ModelsLong-Context Language Model Inference

    Apple

  17. Does Execution Require Target KV Fidelity? A Mixed-Fidelity KV Runtime for LLM Serving

    Sep 27, 2026Jiantong Jiang, Yue Yang, Peiyu Yang +1LLM ServingKV-Cache Management

    University of Melbourne · Maincode

  18. When to Evict, Not What to Keep: Draft-Guided Eviction for Training-Free KV-Cache Compression

    Sep 27, 2026Haeyong Kang, Chang D. YooKV-Cache EvictionMemory-Efficient Inference

    Duksung Women’s University · KAIST

  19. MILO: Efficient Many-shot In-Context Learning with Block-wise Low-rank Compression

    Sep 24, 2026Youpeng Zhao, Tian Tan, Liqian Peng +2Memory-Efficient InferenceLLM Inference Acceleration

    Google · University of Central Florida

  20. Tensor Decomposition of Transformer Key-Value Caches: Spectral Structure and Format Comparison

    Sep 23, 2026Rahul Krishnan, Volker SchulzTensor DecompositionTT Decomposition

    Universität Trier · Fachbereich IV, Mathematik, Universität Trier

  21. QuantWM: Temporally Consistent 2-Bit KV Cache Quantization for Video World Models

    Sep 22, 2026Jiaqi Zhao, Xiaobin Hu, Bo Yin +3KV-Cache CompressionKV-Cache Quantization

    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore

  22. Compressing Long Context into Answer-Aligned Memory Embeddings for LLM Inference

    Sep 22, 2026Md Mostafizer Rahman, Md Faizul Ibne Amin, Md Shahajada Mia +2LLM Inference EfficiencyLong-Context Language Model Inference

    Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA · The University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan · Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA

  23. ARM: Attention with Routed-Memory for Learnable Sparse Control

    Sep 21, 2026Qiuhao Zeng, Jerry Huang, Peng Lu +7Memory-Augmented Language ModelsLong-Context Language Model Inference

    University of Toronto, Canada · Vector Institute, Canada · RIKEN AIP, Japan +3

  24. KV-COBRA: KV Cache Compression via Co-Optimized Bit-Rank Allocation

    Sep 21, 2026Sihyeon Ha, Jaeho Lee, Yo-Seb JeonLow-Rank CompressionKV-Cache Compression

    Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

  25. Marginal utility, matrix factorization, and the Key-Value (KV) cache: a unified information-economic framework for sovereign geo-mining inference

    Sep 17, 2026Caroline Gans CombeCost-Aware InferenceKV-Cache Compression

    INSEEC · INSEEC Business School / Omnes Education, Paris.

  26. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

    Sep 17, 2026DeepSeek-AI, :, Anyi Xu +590KV CachingLong-Context Language Model Inference

  27. D-Quant: Driftable Entropy Coding for KV Cache Quantization

    Sep 17, 2026Yi Su, Hong Liu, Guanghua Yu +1KV CachingKV-Cache Compression

    Tencent

  28. LLM Inference in a Flash!

    Sep 14, 2026Sebastian Zhao, Minseo Kim, Coleman Hooper +5LLM QuantizationCompute-in-Memory

    UC Berkeley · ICSI · LBNL

  29. Pixel Decodability Is Not a Compression Signal: Causally Evaluating Importance Proxies for Visual KV-Cache Eviction

    Sep 14, 2026Chenyu Zhou, Qiliang Jiang, Shuning Wu +1KV CachingKV-Cache Eviction

    School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan · College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore

  30. TRACE: Trajectory-robust Admission with Evidence Ordering for Efficient GUI Agents

    Sep 9, 2026Yuhao Wang, Mu Qiao, Xindong Zhang +3KV-Cache CompressionVisual Token Pruning

    Dalian University of Technology · OPPO Research Institute · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  31. Grouped Value Attention: Efficient KV Caching via On-Demand Key Reconstruction

    Sep 8, 2026Vishesh Tripathi, Abhay Kumar, Ramsha KhanEfficient Transformer InferenceGrouped-Query Attention

    FrontiersMind

  32. Jacap: Robust KV Cache Eviction via Jacobian-Based Nonlinear Information Capacity Preservation

    Sep 8, 2026Jiaming Yang, Chenwei Tang, Liangli Zhen +2KV CachingKV-Cache Eviction

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China · 2Engineering Research Center of Machine Learning and Industry Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China · Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

  33. MetaKV: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for Constrained LLM Inference

    Sep 7, 2026Michael Wang, Keith Li, Roozbeh BostandoostLLM Inference EfficiencyLLM Inference

    Lake Washington School District · XSchool · UMass Amherst

  34. VestigeKV: The NoPE-MLA KV Cache Carries Its Own Sparse-Attention Signal in a Vestigial Branch

    Sep 3, 2026WenJie FanKV CachingKV-Cache Management

    Yotta Labs

  35. What Matters for Aggressive Decoding-Time KV Eviction? Temporal Aggregation and Ranking Preservation

    Sep 3, 2026Bo Zeng, Yu Zhao, Yefeng Liu +3KV CachingKV-Cache Eviction

    Ant Group · Alibaba Group · Universität Hamburg

  36. GrowPage: On-Demand KV Budgeting for Efficient LLM Reasoning Serving

    Sep 3, 2026Qiankun Ma, Yanjiang Zhou, Zinan Xiong +5LLM InferenceKV Caching

    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Pengcheng Laboratory · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  37. Random Attention: Rethinking KV Cache Eviction for Efficient Reasoning

    Sep 3, 2026Heng Wang, Jielin Qiu, Wenting Zhao +8KV CachingMemory-Efficient Optimization

    Salesforce AI Research · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  38. SGD-KV: Summarization Guided KV Cache Compression

    Sep 3, 2026Zeyu Liu, Woomin Song, Xuandi Fu +5KV CachingLong-Context Language Model Inference

    USC, USA · KAIST, Korea · Amazon AGI, USA

  39. HeadWiseKV: Budgeted Per-Head Cache Residency for Hybrid Long-Context Language Models

    Sep 2, 2026Renjie Xie, Juncheng Yang, Aoting Hu +4KV CachingLong-Context Language Model Inference

    Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Tylogi AI Lab / TAIL · Anhui University of Technology +2

  40. CateKV: On Sequential Consistency for Long-Context LLM Inference Acceleration

    Aug 31, 2026Haoyun Jiang, Haolin Li, Jianwei Zhang +7Long-Context Language Model InferenceLLM Inference Acceleration

    1CMIC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Alibaba Group · 3Fudan University

  41. Strong Drafts Need Compact Memories: Long-Context Speculative Decoding with Compressed KV Cache

    Aug 31, 2026Tong Yuan, Chengxi Liao, Zeyi WenMemory-Augmented Language ModelsKV Caching

    Data Science and Analytics Thrust, Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  42. Budget-Aware Compression Pipeline for Single-GPU LLM Inference: Methods, Trade-offs, and Coupling Effects

    Aug 30, 2026Hongyu Yu, Yifei ShenLLM QuantizationLLM Pruning

    Lenovo Research · University of Washington

  43. Compression-Aware Abstention: Teaching LLMs to Refuse When KV-Compression Masks Remove Answer Evidence

    Aug 30, 2026Mohammadali Khodabandehlou, Bhaskar KrishnamachariLLM Hallucination MitigationKV Caching

    University of Southern California

  44. Small Frequency Corrections Can Change What Survives KV Cache Compression

    Aug 27, 2026Hong Chen, Yudong Zeng, Yongwei Huang +5KV CachingKV-Cache Eviction

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Bosum Institute of Management Science, Shenzhen, China

  45. StepKV: Step-Aware KV Cache Compression for LLM Agents

    Aug 26, 2026Boyu Feng, Jiahong Liu, Yifan Li +7KV CachingKV-Cache Compression

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

  46. Learning how to Forget: Fine-tuning for Long-Context Sparse Attention

    Aug 20, 2026Matthias Seeger, Zeyu Zhang, Vihang Patil +2Fine-TuningKV Caching

    Amazon Web Services · University of Amsterdam · Amazon +1

  47. KVDiagnosis: A Diagnostic Benchmark for KV-Cache Compression in Long-Context Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Chen Qiu, Ziwu Liu, Chao Fei +2Long-Context Language Model EvaluationKV Caching

    KAUST Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  48. Deferred Audio Pruning with Local Audio-Visual Dynamics for Omni-LLMs

    Aug 9, 2026Kyeongyoon Lee, Hongyeob Kim, Youngeun Kim +1Efficient Multimodal InferenceAudio Token Compression

    Sungkyunkwan University · AWS AI Labs

  49. RippleKV: Cross-Layer KV Cache Allocation via Perturbation Propagation

    Aug 9, 2026Dongjie Xu, Kai Qian, Julius +6KV CachingKV-Cache Management

    1Soochow University · 2Tencent Inc. · 3The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +2

  50. VoxZip: Semantic-Anchored Temporal KV Cache Compression for Long-Context Audio Inference

    Aug 9, 2026Wenxu Jia, Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng +6Audio Token CompressionLLM Inference Acceleration

    1Zhejiang University · 2Meituan

  51. SPECTRA: Pushing the KV Cache Beyond the 2-Bit Cliff via Spectral Transform Coding

    Aug 8, 2026Jiamu Zhang, Liang Wu, Kelly Wan +2Mixed-Precision QuantizationKV Caching

    Nokia · Rice University

  52. CommitKV: Lifecycle-Aware KV Cache Compression via Commit Transitions for Multi-Turn Agents

    Aug 8, 2026Weizhong Huang, Jinchao Zhang, Xiawu ZhengKV CachingLLM Agent Memory

    Xiamen University · WeChat AI, Tencent Inc., China

  53. Every Cache Entry Earns Its Place: Global Allocation of Resolution and Coverage for KV Cache Compression

    Aug 7, 2026Haolin Tian, Yuzhe Liu, Tonghan WangKV CachingKV-Cache Management

    Tsinghua University Beijing, China

  54. Runtime Observability for Heterogeneous Attention Memory

    Aug 6, 2026Fanzhe Wei, Li Liu, Ziyang Wang +1KV CachingLLM Auditing

    Metask Lab

  55. Fewer Tokens, Smaller Cache: Reward-Coordinated Efficient Reasoning

    Aug 5, 2026Qiyuan Zhu, Dezhi Li, Pengyu Cheng +8Overthinking in Language ModelsKV Caching

    1HKUST · 2XJTU · 3TSE +1

  56. TaskPress: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Compression via Task-Guided Pruning

    Aug 4, 2026Wonpyo Park, Seung-won HwangLLM PruningKV Caching

    Seoul National University · Google

  57. SAKI: Score-Aware Low-Rank Key Indexing with Random-Matrix Noise Correction for KV Retrieval

    Aug 4, 2026Lin ZhangLow-Rank AttentionKV Caching

    Data Science and Platform, Cotality

  58. AnchorKV: Anchor-Residual KV Cache Compression

    Aug 3, 2026Malik Khalaf, Yara Shamshoum, Nitzan Hodos +2KV CachingLong-Context Language Model Inference

    Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  59. Does Accuracy Equal Evidence? Reasoning Faithfulness under KV Cache Compression

    Aug 3, 2026Mengting Ai, Jingrui He, Yue GuoCoT FaithfulnessReasoning Evaluation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  60. RestoreKV: Recovering Full-Cache Behavior Under Aggressive Query-Agnostic KV Cache Eviction

    Aug 2, 2026Changwoo Baek, Seungjun Shin, Kyeongbo KongKV CachingMemory-Efficient Optimization

    Pusan National University · Sookmyung Women’s University