NestedKV: Nested Memory Routing for Long-Context KV Cache Compression

arXiv:2605.26678 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-05-26

Updated: 2026-08-27

Terminology

• KV cache — 22× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Additivity — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Frozen model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Expected Attention: KV Cache Compression by Estimating Attention from Future Queries Distribution
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• RULER: What's the Real Context Size of Your Long-Context Language Models?
• FlowKV: Enhancing Multi-Turn Conversational Coherence in LLMs via Isolated Key-Value Cache Management
• PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling
• Semantic Integrity Matters: Benchmarking and Preserving High-Density Reasoning in KV Cache Compression
• SONIC: Segmented Optimized Nexus for Information Compression in Key-Value Caching
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• $\infty$Bench: Extending Long Context Evaluation Beyond 100K Tokens

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