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Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×
Lossless compression of a target model's KV cache by up to 4×, using a cheaper predictor model to drive an arithmetic coder.
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Lossless compression of a target model's KV cache by up to 4×, using a cheaper predictor model to drive an arithmetic coder.