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pith:KDLQGMOT

pith:2024:KDLQGMOTUZSI6QBY35GFQBATCD

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Reducing Transformer Key-Value Cache Size with Cross-Layer Attention

Aniruddha Nrusimha, Jonathan Ragan Kelly, Mayank Mishra, Rameswar Panda, William Brandon

arxiv:2405.12981 v1 · 2024-05-21 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:21:29.342890Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50d70331d3a6648f4038df4c58041310f2c3f034603364f049bcaa6d537bfea0

Aliases

arxiv: 2405.12981 · arxiv_version: 2405.12981v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.12981 · pith_short_12: KDLQGMOTUZSI · pith_short_16: KDLQGMOTUZSI6QBY · pith_short_8: KDLQGMOT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KDLQGMOTUZSI6QBY35GFQBATCD \
  | 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: 50d70331d3a6648f4038df4c58041310f2c3f034603364f049bcaa6d537bfea0

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-21T17:59:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38e542352699e41ef7bb08fd10f0eb6cf9d6288ed731580ebeac1be21853ee79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2405.12981",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}