KV-streams for Efficient Compaction in Agentic Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv:2609.35750v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling the horizon of agentic LLMs is bottlenecked by the need to fit ever longer context traces in GPU memory. Context compaction has been the most popular mechanism to alleviate this issue, keeping GPU memory constant for a given trace. Unfortunately, most compaction strategies rely on prefilling the LLM context many times over, hindering training throughput. To alleviate this bottleneck and enable efficient trainable compaction, we propose KV-streams, a plug-and-play strategy compatible with any compaction strategy that substantiall
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.35750v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling the horizon of agentic LLMs is bottlenecked by the need to fit ever longer context traces in GPU memory.
- Context compaction has been the most popular mechanism to alleviate this issue, keeping GPU memory constant for a given trace.
- Unfortunately, most compaction strategies rely on prefilling the LLM context many times over, hindering training throughput.
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