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pith:55MRM4TB

pith:2025:55MRM4TBUS7FCL224HW7EWR747

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KVSink: Understanding and Enhancing the Preservation of Attention Sinks in KV Cache Quantization for LLMs

Kehong Yuan, Zunhai Su

arxiv:2508.04257 v1 · 2025-08-06 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:49:23.768429Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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ef59167261a4be512f5ae1edf25a3fe7e72359f75d29bcebd8e6f77fb1d3c392

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arxiv: 2508.04257 · arxiv_version: 2508.04257v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.04257 · pith_short_12: 55MRM4TBUS7F · pith_short_16: 55MRM4TBUS7FCL22 · pith_short_8: 55MRM4TB

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/55MRM4TBUS7FCL224HW7EWR747 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ef59167261a4be512f5ae1edf25a3fe7e72359f75d29bcebd8e6f77fb1d3c392

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