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LOCKS technique cuts KV cache reads 10x at 1M context

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

LOCKS uses per-page SVD to compress KV cache summaries, reducing memory reads by 10x at 1M token context. It avoids the structural failure of shared-basis methods like ShadowKV by storing page-specific centroids and singular vectors. The technique achieves theoretical guarantees on attention mass coverage while using only 10% of original data.

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A clever fix for a fundamental flaw in sparse attention, but real-world speedups depend on hardware and implementation details.
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