Tailoring the Quantization Space for 1-Bit KV Cache Compression
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arXiv:2610.03027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache becomes a major memory bottleneck in long-context LLM inference, placing substantial pressure on memory capacity and bandwidth. To mitigate this bottleneck, vector quantization (VQ) has emerged as a promising approach for aggressive KV cache compression. However, existing VQ methods degrade substantially in the 1-bit regime. At such extreme compression, each codebook must represent a larger group of channels with a limited set of centroids, making effective use of its capacity increasingly challenging. To address this,
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.03027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache becomes a major memory bottleneck in long-context LLM inference, placing substantial pressure on memory capacity and bandwidth.
- To mitigate this bottleneck, vector quantization (VQ) has emerged as a promising approach for aggressive KV cache compression.
- However, existing VQ methods degrade substantially in the 1-bit regime.
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