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arxiv: 2605.05971 · v2 · submitted 2026-05-07 · 💻 cs.LG

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Training Transformers for KV Cache Compressibility

Yoav Gelberg , Yam Eitan , Michael Bronstein , Yarin Gal , Haggai Maron
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classification 💻 cs.LG
keywords KV cache compressiontransformer traininglong-context modelingcontext compressionKV sparsificationrepresentation learningmemory efficiencycontinued pretraining
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The pith

Training transformers with KV masking produces representations that compress far more effectively after the fact.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that KV cache compressibility is not fixed by the input but depends on the learned internal representations. It proves that nearly any sequence-to-vector function can be implemented by a transformer whose KV states are either highly compressible or stubbornly non-compressible. This motivates a continued pretraining stage that masks KV slots during training so the model learns to pack its information into fewer usable slots. The resulting models let existing post-hoc compression methods reach higher quality at the same memory budget on retrieval, question answering, and continuation tasks.

Core claim

Almost any sequence-to-vector function admits both highly compressible and inherently non-compressible transformer implementations, and a train-time KV sparsification policy can steer the model toward the compressible regime without degrading its core capabilities.

What carries the argument

KV-Compression Aware Training (KV-CAT), a continued pretraining procedure that applies a KV masking policy during training to force the model to rely on fewer KV slots.

If this is right

  • Existing KV compression algorithms achieve better quality for any given memory budget on retrieval and long-context QA.
  • Perplexity on tasks that continue from a compressed prefix improves relative to models trained without the masking policy.
  • The same model weights remain competitive on standard short-context benchmarks while becoming easier to compress at inference time.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same masking idea could be applied during fine-tuning rather than only continued pretraining to adapt existing models.
  • If compressibility can be trained in, it may become a standard training objective alongside next-token prediction for any long-context architecture.
  • The proof that both compressible and non-compressible realizations exist implies that architecture search or regularization choices can inadvertently lock models into the harder-to-compress regime.

Load-bearing premise

Masking KV slots at training time will cause compressible yet still useful representations to emerge without requiring heavy hyperparameter search or harming the model's original performance.

What would settle it

After running KV-CAT, applying any standard post-hoc KV compression method produces no improvement in the quality-versus-budget curve or causes measurable drops in accuracy on long-context retrieval and QA benchmarks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.05971 by Haggai Maron, Michael Bronstein, Yam Eitan, Yarin Gal, Yoav Gelberg.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: KV-Compression Aware Training (KV-CAT). A context a goes through both masked (left) and dense (right) forward passes. In the masked forward pass, routers (orange) compute masks for groups of consecutive layers, marking KV slots as active (green) or inactive (muted green). In the dense forward pass (blue), all KV slots are kept. The output of the masked forward pass is used to compute Lmask, router distribu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: KV-CAT speeds up gradient-based KV cache compression. We plot the gap in suffix perplexity under full/compressed-prefix inference throughout gradient-based KV cache optimization. Each panel fixes a different KV keep ratio. Across ratios, the KV-CAT checkpoint achieves a comparable ∆PPL in fewer optimization steps than the base model, yielding up to a 5× speedup. where qi and mi denote the router’s score an… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: QWEN2.5-0.5B KV-CAT continued pretraining run. We plot dense validation next￾token-prediction loss, compressed-path validation next-token-prediction loss, and the realized KV retention ratio over the 5.24B-token KV-CAT continued-pretraining run. The retention trace reports the fraction of KV slots kept by the learned routers, whose budget target is 50%. PIQA [4], Social IQa [49], OpenBookQA [39], ARC-Easy … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: KV-CAT speeds up gradient-based KV cache compression. We plot the gap in suffix perplexity under full/compressed-prefix inference throughout gradient-based KV cache optimization. Each panel fixes a different KV keep ratio. Across ratios, the KV-CAT checkpoint achieves a comparable ∆PPL in fewer optimization steps than the base model, yielding up to a 5× speedup. E Limitations Our approach relies on continu… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Long-context language modeling is increasingly constrained by the Key-Value (KV) cache, whose memory and decode-time access costs scale linearly with the prefix length. This bottleneck has motivated a range of context-compression methods, from token-level summarization to recent optimization-based KV compression methods. These post-hoc methods operate on the KV cache of a fixed pretrained model, so their effectiveness is fundamentally limited by how well the model's internal representations can be compressed. In this work, we formalize the notion of KV compressibility and show that it is a property of the learned representations, rather than of the context alone. We prove that almost any sequence-to-vector function admits both highly compressible and inherently non-compressible transformer implementations, highlighting the need to guide transformers toward compressible representations during training. Motivated by this, we propose KV-Compression Aware Training (KV-CAT), a continued pretraining procedure that incentivizes the emergence of compressible representations. We introduce a train-time KV sparsification policy that masks KV slots during training. This forces the model to use fewer KV slots and encourages it to learn representations amenable to post-hoc compression. Empirically, we show that KV-CAT improves the quality-budget tradeoff of downstream compression methods across retrieval, long-context question answering, and perplexity-based evaluation of compressed-prefix continuation.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that KV cache compressibility is a property of learned transformer representations rather than the input context. It proves that nearly any sequence-to-vector function admits both highly compressible and inherently non-compressible transformer implementations. Motivated by this, it introduces KV-Compression Aware Training (KV-CAT), a continued pretraining procedure that applies a train-time KV slot masking policy to encourage compressible representations. Experiments demonstrate improved quality-budget tradeoffs for post-hoc compression methods on retrieval, long-context QA, and perplexity-based continuation tasks.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work supplies a useful theoretical lens on representation non-uniqueness in transformers together with a concrete training intervention that can improve downstream compression efficiency. The existence proof for compressible versus non-compressible realizations is a clear strength, as is the empirical evaluation across multiple compression techniques and task types. Successful adoption could meaningfully reduce KV cache memory and latency costs in long-context inference without requiring changes to inference-time compressors.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 3] The existence proof (Section 3) shows that compressible implementations are possible for almost any sequence-to-vector function but supplies no analysis or guarantee that gradient descent under the specific KV-masking policy will converge to the compressible basin rather than a non-compressible or capability-degraded one. This link is load-bearing for the motivation of KV-CAT.
  2. [Section 4] The KV-CAT description (Section 4) introduces the masking rate and sparsification policy as free parameters without ablations demonstrating that the induced representations remain useful for the original task distribution while becoming amenable to unrelated post-hoc compressors (optimization-based or summarization-based).
  3. [Section 5] The empirical results (Section 5) report gains on compressed-prefix tasks but do not include explicit controls confirming that uncompressed perplexity and retrieval accuracy are preserved; without these, it is unclear whether the observed improvements reflect genuine compressibility gains or hidden capability tradeoffs.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Section 2] Notation for the KV masking policy and compressibility metric could be introduced earlier and used consistently across the proof and experimental sections.
  2. [Figure 3] Figure captions for the quality-budget curves should explicitly state the post-hoc compression methods being compared and the exact masking rate used during KV-CAT.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

Thank you for the detailed and constructive review. We appreciate the recognition of the theoretical non-uniqueness result and the potential practical value of KV-CAT. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [Section 3] The existence proof (Section 3) shows that compressible implementations are possible for almost any sequence-to-vector function but supplies no analysis or guarantee that gradient descent under the specific KV-masking policy will converge to the compressible basin rather than a non-compressible or capability-degraded one. This link is load-bearing for the motivation of KV-CAT.

    Authors: We agree that the existence proof is purely existential and provides no convergence guarantee for gradient descent under the KV-masking policy. Proving such a guarantee is difficult given the non-convex optimization landscape of transformers. Our strongest defense is empirical: across retrieval, long-context QA, and perplexity tasks, KV-CAT consistently improves post-hoc compression quality while preserving base-model performance, indicating that the masking policy reliably steers optimization toward compressible representations in practice. In the revision we will add an explicit limitations paragraph acknowledging the lack of theoretical convergence analysis. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Section 4] The KV-CAT description (Section 4) introduces the masking rate and sparsification policy as free parameters without ablations demonstrating that the induced representations remain useful for the original task distribution while becoming amenable to unrelated post-hoc compressors (optimization-based or summarization-based).

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. The initial submission used a single masking rate selected via limited tuning and did not present systematic ablations. In the revised manuscript we will add a new subsection with ablations over masking rates (0.1, 0.3, 0.5) and two sparsification policies, reporting both uncompressed task performance and downstream quality under optimization-based and summarization-based compressors to confirm that the representations remain useful while becoming more compressible. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Section 5] The empirical results (Section 5) report gains on compressed-prefix tasks but do not include explicit controls confirming that uncompressed perplexity and retrieval accuracy are preserved; without these, it is unclear whether the observed improvements reflect genuine compressibility gains or hidden capability tradeoffs.

    Authors: The manuscript states that KV-CAT models retain competitive uncompressed performance, but we acknowledge that side-by-side controls could be presented more explicitly. In the revision we will insert a dedicated table comparing uncompressed perplexity, retrieval accuracy, and long-context QA scores for the original pretrained model, the KV-CAT model, and relevant baselines, thereby making the absence of capability tradeoffs fully transparent. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • No theoretical analysis or guarantee is provided that gradient descent will converge to the compressible basin under the KV-masking policy.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; proof and intervention are independent of target metric

full rationale

The paper's core mathematical claim is a proof that almost any sequence-to-vector function admits both compressible and non-compressible transformer realizations; this existence result is stated as a first-principles theorem and does not reduce to the KV-CAT masking procedure or to any fitted quantity. The KV-CAT method is introduced as an explicit train-time sparsification policy (masking KV slots) whose downstream effect on post-hoc compression is measured empirically rather than defined by construction. No self-definitional equations, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation chain. The central claim therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The abstract provides limited detail on assumptions. The proof likely relies on the known universality of transformers for sequence-to-vector mappings, which is a standard result rather than a new axiom introduced here.

free parameters (1)
  • KV masking rate / sparsification policy
    The fraction and schedule of KV slots masked during training is a hyperparameter chosen to balance compressibility against task performance.
axioms (1)
  • standard math Transformers are universal approximators for sequence-to-vector functions
    Invoked to support the claim that both compressible and non-compressible implementations exist for almost any function.

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