ResKV: Reconstructing Omitted Attention Contributions for Fixed-Budget KV Cache Compression

arXiv:2607.29591 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-07-31 · Read on arXiv

Yuhang Zhan, Lisi Chen, Shuo Shang

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-07-31

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• KV cache — 37× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decode — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Quantization — 4× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparse Attention — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Sparsity — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• KVSculpt: KV Cache Compression as Distillation
• Scissorhands: Exploiting the Persistence of Importance Hypothesis for LLM KV Cache Compression at Test Time
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report

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