WnW: Waxing-and-Waning KV Cache for Long-Form Speech LLMs

arXiv:2608.22704 · cs.CL, cs.SD · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.SD

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-29

Code: https://github.com/XMUDeepLIT/WnW

Terminology

Decode — 48× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
KV cache — 25× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 23× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Voice Score — 7× in this paper
Head Sensitivity — 6× in this paper
Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Quantization — 2× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
Sparsity — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Domain Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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