Page-EntroKV tackles KV-cache bloat in grouped-query attention
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Grouped-query attention has become standard in efficient LLM serving, but existing KV-cache eviction methods treat query heads independently, forcing engines to retain tokens across all heads in a group. This wastes memory by up to the group ratio. Page-EntroKV reframes cache eviction at the physical group level, using entropy-weighted pooling to make coherent retention decisions across shared KV buffers. The work addresses a real bottleneck in long-context inference: as models scale to millions of tokens, cache pressure grows faster than compute, and misaligned eviction strategies compound waste. This matters for anyone running production LLM services where memory is the binding constraint.
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Page-EntroKV's key insight is that existing eviction methods operate at the wrong granularity. Because grouped-query attention shares KV buffers across multiple query heads, per-head retention decisions force the system to keep tokens for the entire group even if only one head needs them. This paper reframes the problem as a group-level decision, not a head-level one.
This builds directly on the cache pressure problem covered in TempoKV (late September) and WUSH-KV (late September), which both tackled memory as the binding constraint in long-context serving. Where those papers addressed staging and quantization, Page-EntroKV targets a different layer: the eviction policy itself. The entropy-weighted approach also echoes the importance-sampling logic in SANTA++ (late September), which used token significance to guide what stays in cache. The difference here is that Page-EntroKV operates on the architectural assumption that grouped-query attention introduces, making it complementary rather than redundant with prior work.
If Page-EntroKV ships in a production inference engine (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or similar) within the next two quarters and shows measurable memory savings on real workloads with group sizes of 8 or higher, that confirms the group-level framing actually matters in practice. If the gains disappear on smaller group sizes or in batch settings with high query diversity, the assumption breaks down.
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·arXiv cs.LG
TempoKV optimizes GPU memory staging for long-context LLM serving
TempoKV addresses a critical bottleneck in LLM inference: managing key-value cache memory when serving long-context models. As reusable KV caches exceed GPU capacity, systems must spill to SSD storage, but naive staging strategies either waste fast-tier space or incur retrieval latency. TempoKV decouples cache tracking from resource commitment, staging data only when runtime estimates predict…
MentionsPage-EntroKV · grouped-query attention · KV-cache · Renyi-2 entropy
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