2026
HARD-KV: Head-Adaptive Regularization for Decoding-time KV Compression
ICML 2026poster
Long-context LLM inference faces a fundamental conflict: head-adaptive compression algorithms (e.g., Top-$p$ nucleus sampling) offer superior accuracy by dynamically fluctuating memory budgets, yet modern inference engines (e.g., vLLM) demand rigid, static memory patterns to leverage CUDA Graphs and…