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FAEDKV: Infinite-Window Fourier Transform for Unbiased KV Cache Compression

arXiv 2507.20030 ↗First posted 26 Jul 2025cs.CLcited by 11

On the map: Efficient LLM inference and serving → KV cache optimization

Abstract (arXiv)

The efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in long-context tasks is often hampered by the substantial memory footprint and computational demands of the Key-Value (KV) cache. Current compression strategies, including token eviction and learned projections, frequently lead to biased representations -- either by overemphasizing recent/high-attention tokens or by repeatedly degrading information from earlier context -- and may require costly model retraining. We present FAEDKV (Frequency-Adaptive Infinite-Window for KV cache), a novel, training-free KV cache compression framework that ensures unbiased information retention. FAEDKV operates by transforming the KV cache into the frequency domain using a proposed Infinite-Window Fourier Transform (IWDFT). This approach allows for the equalized contribution of all tokens to the compressed representation, effectively preserving both early and recent contextual information. A preliminary frequency ablation study identifies critical spectral components for layer-wise, targeted compression. Experiments on LongBench benchmark demonstrate FAEDKV's superiority over existing methods by up to 22%. In addition, our method shows superior, position-agnostic retrieval accuracy on the Needle-In-A-Haystack task compared to compression based approaches.

Key facts. Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in KV cache optimization, one of 12 directions in Efficient LLM inference and serving. Builds on 17 of its 27 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Jul 2025.

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17 of 27 references.

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  1. 2025FreqKV: Key-Value Compression in Frequency Domain for Context Window Extension1 May
  2. 2025InfiniteHiP: Extending Language Model Context Up to 3 Million Tokens on a Single GPU13 Feb
  3. 2024LoCoCo: Dropping In Convolutions for Long Context Compression8 Jun
  4. 2024PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling4 Jun
  5. 2024SnapKV: LLM Knows What You are Looking for Before Generation22 Apr
  6. 2023Model Tells You What to Discard: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for LLMs3 Oct
  7. 2023Scissorhands: Exploiting the Persistence of Importance Hypothesis for LLM KV Cache Compression at Test Time26 May

Other references · 10

  1. 2021RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embeddingcited by 4,703
  2. 2023Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contextscited by 3,455
  3. 2016Pointer Sentinel Mixture Modelscited by 3,096
  4. 2023LongBench: A Bilingual, Multitask Benchmark for Long Context Understandingcited by 1,417
  5. 2023GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpointscited by 1,346
  6. 2019Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modellingcited by 726
  7. 2021FNet: Mixing Tokens with Fourier Transformscited by 347
  8. 2024Long Context Compression with Activation Beaconcited by 104
  9. 2024NeedleBench: Evaluating LLM Retrieval and Reasoning Across Varying Information Densitiescited by 32
  10. 2023Fourier Transformer: Fast Long Range Modeling by Removing Sequence Redundancy with FFT Operatorcited by 20

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  1. 2026EchoKV: Efficient KV Cache Compression via Similarity-Based Reconstruction
  2. 2025Beyond Homogeneous Attention: Memory-Efficient LLMs via Fourier-Approximated KV Cache
  3. 2025KeepKV: Achieving Periodic Lossless KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference
  4. 2025KVCompose: Efficient Structured KV Cache Compression with Composite Tokens
  5. 2025PackKV: Reducing KV Cache Memory Footprint through LLM-Aware Lossy Compression
  6. 2026Training Transformers for KV Cache Compressibility
  7. 2026PuzzleKV: Page-Wise Low-Rank Decomposition for KV Cache Compression
  8. 2026DynaCalKV: Key-Value Cache Compression via Head Grouping and Adaptive Rank Allocation