MemoSight: Unifying Context Compression and Multi Token Prediction for Reasoning Acceleration
On the map: LLM reasoning → Test-time compute and efficient thinking
Abstract (arXiv)
While chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning enables LLMs to solve challenging reasoning tasks, the linear growth of the KV cache leads to substantial memory and inference overhead. Existing approaches such as context compression and multi-token prediction (MTP) improve efficiency from two complementary directions by compressing historical tokens and generating future tokens in parallel. However, effectively combining them remains challenging due to their different training paradigms and architectural assumptions. In this work, we propose MemoSight (Memory-Foresight-Based Reasoning), a unified framework that integrates context compression and MTP to improve inference efficiency while preserving CoT performance. MemoSight adopts a shared minimalist design based on special tokens and token-specific positional layouts for both compression and parallel prediction. Experiments on four reasoning benchmarks show that, compared to the vanilla SFT baseline, MemoSight reduces KV cache usage by up to 66% and improves inference speed by 56%, while incurring less than a 3% drop in average reasoning accuracy, yielding a better efficiency-accuracy trade-off than existing CoT compression methods.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Test-time compute and efficient thinking, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 34 of its 50 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Apr 2026.
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