SemKV: Semantic Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization Guided by the Quality Cliff for Long-Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2608.28911 · cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.IT, math.IT · Submitted 2026-08-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.IT, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-08-28

Updated: 2026-08-28

Terminology

• KV cache — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

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