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CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation

As of 7 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 33 of 33 outbound references and 8 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.02401.

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This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation GPT-4 Technical Report

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This paper cites PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling.

CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling

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CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation Qwen2.5 Technical Report

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CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation GEAR: An Efficient KV Cache Compression Recipe for Near-Lossless Generative Inference of LLM

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This paper cites W.; Hassoun, J.; Keutzer, K.; and Gholami, A.

CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation W.; Hassoun, J.; Keutzer, K.; and Gholami, A

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TPLA: Tensor Parallel Latent Attention for Efficient Disaggregated Prefill and Decode Inference cites this paper.

TPLA: Tensor Parallel Latent Attention for Efficient Disaggregated Prefill and Decode Inference CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation

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RedKnot: Efficient Long-Context LLM Serving with Head-Aware KV Reuse and SegPagedAttention cites this paper.

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Logit-Contribution Scoring Identifies Non-Literal Retrieval Heads CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation

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Adaptive Filtering of the KV Cache: Diagnosing and Correcting Structural-Role Bias in LLM Inference cites this paper.

Adaptive Filtering of the KV Cache: Diagnosing and Correcting Structural-Role Bias in LLM Inference CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation

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Training-Free Hashing-Based Attention via Binary Principal Components cites this paper.

Training-Free Hashing-Based Attention via Binary Principal Components CompressKV: Semantic Retrieval Heads Know What Tokens are Not Important Before Generation

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