Local alignment enables predictive coding for error-bounded KV cache compression

AlignPred combines orthogonal rotations of related heads or layers with token-wise and cross-block prediction, then encodes residuals under a configurable reconstruction-error budget.

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Xu Yang · Jiapeng Zhang · Zhiwei Zuo · Yuxin Chen · Feiqiang Sun · Chengguang Xu · +2 more

Hunan University · Tencent · Central China Normal University

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The authors present AlignPred, a codec for persistent KV caches in long-running LLM agents.

The authors designed AlignPred, a compression codec that operates on the KV cache of LLMs.

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AlignPred compresses persistent KV caches by aligning related blocks and coding residuals under a configurable error budget.

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