Behavior-Preserving KV Cache Compression

arXiv:2610.06479 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-05

Updated: 2026-10-05

Code: https://github.com/NVIDIA/kvpress

Terminology

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

Sources

• PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling
• Expected Attention: KV Cache Compression by Estimating Attention from Future Queries Distribution
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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