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PublishedJuly 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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The risk of KV cache compression
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arXiv:2607.01520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer inference on long sequences is expensive because softmax attention repeatedly reads from a large KV cache. The prevalent approach to this bottleneck is KV cache compression, which replaces the full cache with a compact summary. Despite its
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