Probe and Skip: Self-Predictive Token Skipping for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2601.13155 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-01-19 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-01-19

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Pruning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Training-Free Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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