2026
DecodeShare: Tracing the Shared Pathways of LLM Decode-Time Decisions
ICML 2026spotlight
Large language models (LLMs) handle many tasks with one set of parameters, but under KV-cached inference it is unclear what task-general structure, if any, is used at $\textit{decode time}$ rather than during $\textit{prefill}$. We propose $\textbf{DecodeShare}$, a protocol that identifies a low-dim…