SlimKV: Joint Token-Feature KV Cache Compression with Reconstruction-Free Beacon Attention
Paper โข 2610.02953 โข Published
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Joint token-feature KV-cache compression with reconstruction-free beacon attention.
The r2/r4/r8 suffixes denote 2ร/4ร/8ร feature compression (SlimKV-f2/f4/f8 in the paper). Token compression is configured separately through the beacon interval. In the paper, t4f4 combines 4ร token compression and 4ร feature compression for 16ร total compression.
| Backbone | 2ร feature compression | 4ร feature compression | 8ร feature compression |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama3.1-8B | SlimKV-f2 (r2) | SlimKV-f4 (r4) | SlimKV-f8 (r8) |
| Qwen2.5-14B | SlimKV-f2 (r2) | SlimKV-f4 (r4) | SlimKV-f8 (r8) |