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BeeLlama.cpp v0.4.1: KVarN, KV precision tail, q2_0-q3_1 KV cache, improved supp

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24 Mar
Delta-KV for llama.cpp: near-lossless 4-bit KV cache on Llama 70B

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I applied video compression to LLM inference and got <strong>10,000x less quantization error at the same storage cost</strong></p> <p><a

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27 Mar
Google TurboQuant blew up for KV cache. Here’s TurboQuant-v3 for the actual weights you load first. Runs on consumer GPUs today.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s5cggh/google_turboquant_blew_up_for_kv_cache_heres/"> <img alt="Google TurboQuant blew up for KV cache.

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29 Apr
TurboQuant on a MacBook Pro, part 2: perplexity, KL divergence, and asymmetric K/V on M5 Max

<blockquote> <p><em>Originally published at <a href="https://llmkube.com/blog/turboquant-m5-max-quality-and-asymmetric" rel="noopener

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31 Mar
attn-rot (ggerganov's "TurboQuant lite") is on the cusp of getting merged into llama.cpp

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s92x7z/attnrot_ggerganovs_turboquant_lite_is_on_the_cusp/"> <img alt="attn-rot (ggerganov's

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29 Apr
llama.cpp benchmark native vs. non native NVFP4 on Blackwell - summary

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I tested two llama.cpp builds on the same <strong>Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4</strong> model.</p> <p><code>llama-bench</code> reports the model label as

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14 Apr
Updated Qwen3.5-9B Quantization Comparison

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sl59qq/updated_qwen359b_quantization_comparison/"> <img alt="Updated Qwen3.5-9B Quantization Comparison"

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4 May
FastDMS: 6.4X KV-cache compression running faster than vLLM BF16/FP8

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Last year researchers affiliated with NVIDIA, University of Warsaw, and University of Edinburgh published <a

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8 Apr
Napkin math: KV cache for Llama 3.1 at 128K context is ~64GB per decode request, and that's after GQA

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Every output token the model generates requires reading the entire KV cache from High Bandwidth Memory.</p> <p>Here's what that actually looks

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