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KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks

As of 14 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 37 of 37 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2606.03458.

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Observation 1658b75d-390c-4b66-8d5f-23df83a4cff2 · outbound

This paper cites Phi-4 Technical Report.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Phi-4 Technical Report

Reference 1

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Observation d9c2af66-94bb-4f93-b8a4-9bbcd3cbe868 · outbound

This paper cites Quarot: Outlier-free 4-bit inference in rotated llms.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37:100213– 100240, 2024.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Quarot: Outlier-free 4-bit inference in rotated llms.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37:100213– 100240, 2024

Reference 2

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Observation 3b20ce20-ce12-47b7-a1a6-c53db703815f · outbound

This paper cites Longbench: A bilingual, multitask benchmark for long context understanding.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Longbench: A bilingual, multitask benchmark for long context understanding

Reference 3

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Observation ef4dcb9c-e043-4f46-b3a9-daa30a135deb · outbound

This paper cites Forest-of-thought: Scaling test-time compute for enhancing LLM reasoning.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Forest-of-thought: Scaling test-time compute for enhancing LLM reasoning

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Observation fb843ad2-9d48-4931-a49c-23ef05a0b74b · outbound

This paper cites PyramidKV: Dynamic KV cache compression based on pyramidal information funneling.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks PyramidKV: Dynamic KV cache compression based on pyramidal information funneling

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Observation ad73cda1-736b-4b7b-844f-c44b244546b5 · outbound

This paper cites Quip: 2-bit quanti- zation of large language models with guarantees.Advances in neural information processing systems, 36:4396–4429, 2023.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Quip: 2-bit quanti- zation of large language models with guarantees.Advances in neural information processing systems, 36:4396–4429, 2023

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Observation 864ddb71-da30-457d-a202-7fbb3174d739 · outbound

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KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Unresolved cited work

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Observation 2389d9c7-a401-479b-88f9-56ef8fd6ede7 · outbound

This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 8

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Observation ca8e92af-7a24-4193-ad91-020819830cae · outbound

This paper cites KVQuant: Towards 10 million context length llm inference with kv cache quantization.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37:1270–1303, 2024.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks KVQuant: Towards 10 million context length llm inference with kv cache quantization.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37:1270–1303, 2024

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Observation e1a16110-6aad-48ac-8a9c-f044136a06a3 · outbound

This paper cites Needle in a haystack-pressure testing llms.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Needle in a haystack-pressure testing llms

Reference 10

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Observation f554b56d-b289-4f18-962d-7f9f82ff3d45 · outbound

This paper cites Lee, Sangdoo Yun, and Hyun Oh Song.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Lee, Sangdoo Yun, and Hyun Oh Song

Reference 11

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Observation a5845339-fc7a-4b42-ab5a-a627f3958600 · outbound

This paper cites Gonzalez, Hao Zhang, and Ion Stoica.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Gonzalez, Hao Zhang, and Ion Stoica

Reference 12

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Observation 77fd167f-c433-4771-8b42-c440347275dc · outbound

This paper cites How long can context length of open-source LLMs truly promise? InNeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Instruction Tuning and Instruction Following, 2023.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks How long can context length of open-source LLMs truly promise? InNeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Instruction Tuning and Instruction Following, 2023

Reference 13

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Observation 432e46cf-7267-4581-ac3b-e3d59dfd9445 · outbound

This paper cites Snapkv: Llm knows what you are looking for before generation.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Snapkv: Llm knows what you are looking for before generation

Reference 14

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Observation fe4a6ef5-f06f-45e6-b0bd-306eafcd01ff · outbound

This paper cites Let’s verify step by step.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Let’s verify step by step

Reference 15

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Observation 4f159434-a3f8-42e6-8552-63f5615cc130 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model

Reference 16

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Observation 5d5f6d12-bb0c-4674-9e2c-5e2ece592a7e · outbound

This paper cites Spinquant: LLM quantization with learned rotations.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Spinquant: LLM quantization with learned rotations

Reference 17

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Observation ff49c2b2-772e-411c-990a-3f346392d2e4 · outbound

This paper cites Scissorhands: Exploiting the persistence of importance hypothesis for llm kv cache compression at test time.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Scissorhands: Exploiting the persistence of importance hypothesis for llm kv cache compression at test time

Reference 18

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Observation f94d4603-ad73-4fb3-90d5-dd0d432843c5 · outbound

This paper cites Kivi: A tuning-free asymmetric 2bit quantization for kv cache.Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 235:32332–32344, 2024.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Kivi: A tuning-free asymmetric 2bit quantization for kv cache.Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 235:32332–32344, 2024

Reference 19

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Observation fc85ced5-dfdd-45ff-af15-fc0c9b82e4b1 · outbound

This paper cites Pushing the limits of large language model quantization via the linearity theorem.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Pushing the limits of large language model quantization via the linearity theorem

Reference 20

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Observation 21d89b13-182e-4e98-9799-4f3d674d268e · outbound

This paper cites s1: Simple test-time scaling.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks s1: Simple test-time scaling

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Observation 6cc7018f-38a1-4800-8252-90eff1af227b · outbound

This paper cites Sinq: Sinkhorn-normalized quantization for calibration-free low-precision llm weights.arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22944, 2025.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Sinq: Sinkhorn-normalized quantization for calibration-free low-precision llm weights.arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22944, 2025

Reference 22

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Observation 0f4f16e8-1df8-4145-98cd-576effc43fbf · outbound

This paper cites Learning to reason with llms, September 2024.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Learning to reason with llms, September 2024

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Observation 40f910ba-1120-4faa-ae53-9d4561b7fadf · outbound

This paper cites Thinking vs.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Thinking vs

Reference 24

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Observation 56754088-b643-40a8-82a7-1f821b525adf · outbound

This paper cites Scaling LLM test-time com- pute optimally can be more effective than scaling parameters for reasoning.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Scaling LLM test-time com- pute optimally can be more effective than scaling parameters for reasoning

Reference 25

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This paper cites Advancing Intelligent Sequence Modeling: Evolution, Trade-offs, and Applications of State-Space Architectures from S4 to Mamba.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Advancing Intelligent Sequence Modeling: Evolution, Trade-offs, and Applications of State-Space Architectures from S4 to Mamba

Reference 26

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Observation 5d04826b-1c03-422e-a0a6-4bc7ff3d4f6c · outbound

This paper cites MultiQA: An empirical investigation of generalization and transfer in reading comprehension.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks MultiQA: An empirical investigation of generalization and transfer in reading comprehension

Reference 27

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This paper cites Qtip: Quantization with trellises and incoherence processing.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37:59597–59620, 2024.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Qtip: Quantization with trellises and incoherence processing.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37:59597–59620, 2024

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Observation 2bb46859-8b6f-49f4-8443-d8d68aa1b66d · outbound

This paper cites D2O: Dynamic discriminative operations for efficient long-context inference of large language models.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks D2O: Dynamic discriminative operations for efficient long-context inference of large language models

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This paper cites Polarquant: Leveraging polar transformation for key cache quantization and decoding acceleration.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Polarquant: Leveraging polar transformation for key cache quantization and decoding acceleration

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This paper cites Accurate and efficient 2-bit kv cache quantization with dynamic channel-wise precision boost.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Accurate and efficient 2-bit kv cache quantization with dynamic channel-wise precision boost

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Observation 69b5d934-f1bb-4ce7-af69-ca1c19151674 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen3 technical report, 2025.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Qwen3 technical report, 2025

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This paper cites Turboquant: Online vector quantization with near-optimal distortion rate.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Turboquant: Online vector quantization with near-optimal distortion rate

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This paper cites American invitational mathematics examination (aime) 2024, 2024.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks American invitational mathematics examination (aime) 2024, 2024

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This paper cites Cam: Cache merging for memory-efficient LLMs inference.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks Cam: Cache merging for memory-efficient LLMs inference

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This paper cites H 2O: Heavy-hitter oracle for efficient generative inference of large language models.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks H 2O: Heavy-hitter oracle for efficient generative inference of large language models

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This paper cites The best thing to do in San Francisco is eat a sandwich and sit in Dolores Park on a sunny day.

KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks The best thing to do in San Francisco is eat a sandwich and sit in Dolores Park on a sunny day

Reference 37

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Where Facts Go Missing: A Layerwise Taxonomy and Per-Layer Attribution of Information Omission in Air-Gapped LLMAgent Pipelines KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks

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WitCert: Sound Runtime Risk Observability and Gating for KV-Cache Quantization cites this paper.

WitCert: Sound Runtime Risk Observability and Gating for KV-Cache Quantization KVarN: Variance-Normalized KV-Cache Quantization Mitigates Error Accumulation in Reasoning Tasks

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