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SparPR Enables Efficient LLM Inference on Consumer GPUs by Recovering KV-Cache

SparPR is a runtime key-value cache recovery method for large language models that operates without modifying model weights or requiring offline training. It addresses memory and bandwidth bottlenecks on consumer GPUs by making three online decisions to manage the growing KV-cache during inference.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-13T10:47:05+00:00 Detected 2026-10-14T21:20:30+00:00
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SparPR is a runtime key-value cache recovery method for large language models that operates without modifying model weights or requiring offline training. It addresses memory and bandwidth bottlenecks on consumer GPUs by making three online decisions to manage the growing KV-cache during inference.

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Running large language models (LLMs) on consumer hardware is bottlenecked by the key-value (KV) cache, which grows with every decoded token and quickly exhausts the memory and bandwidth of a single consumer GPU. We present SparPR (Sparse Partial Recomputation), a runtime KV-cache recovery mechanism that does not...

This approach allows running large language models more efficiently on resource-constrained consumer hardware, overcoming key limitations related to memory and bandwidth. It enables broader access to LLM inference without specialized hardware or retraining.

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