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PublishedSeptember 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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VestigeKV: The NoPE-MLA KV Cache Carries Its Own Eviction Signal in a Vestigial Branch
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arXiv:2609.03949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The problem. A long-lived KV cache must be compressed before the queries that will read it exist; selection by observed attention (H2O, SnapKV) collapses there (0.00-0.33 needle retrieval on a NoPE MLA model), because a token's importance has not yet
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