LLM context compression at 16x beats KV cache

<p>Building a production-ready, fault-tolerant Retrieval-Augmented Generation system is an exercise in managing harsh tradeoffs. You want massive context, lightning-fast hybrid

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>DeepSeek dropped the full V4 paper this week. preview from april was 58 pages, this version adds a lot of technical depth.</p> <p>What stood out

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The news about Ulysses Sequence Parallelism enabling million-token contexts is fascinating for local LLMs. While the potential for deeper context

<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.

<!-- 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

<!-- 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

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Running Llama-3-70B with long contexts and hitting HBM limits constantly. 128K context burns approx 40GB just for KV cache — half the H100 gone

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