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STEPQuant: When and Where Errors Matter in Delta-Rule Recurrent State Quantization
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- STEPQuant compresses recurrent states in linear attention models to 6-bit precision by allocating precision based on error magnitude and memory lifetime across spatial and temporal dimensions.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying large language models with linear attention in memory-constrained serving environments where KV cache compression is critical.
- Watch out
- Results demonstrated on specific models; generalization to other architectures and real-world deployment stability under production load remains unvalidated.
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