SlimKV: Joint Token-Feature KV Cache Compression with Reconstruction-Free Beacon Attention

arXiv:2610.02953 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-02

Updated: 2026-10-02

Comments: Accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main Conference (Oral)

Code: https://github.com/gkamradt/LLMTest_NeedleInAHaystack

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• KV cache — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• Model Tells You Where to Merge: Adaptive KV Cache Merging for LLMs on Long-Context Tasks
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