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SemPIC: Learning Semantic Position-Independent KV Caches

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TL;DR - SemPIC learns position-independent KV caches for reusable documents, improving long-context retrieval when instructions, histories, or document order change. It approaches full-recompute accuracy while preserving the standard cache-hit decoding path.

  • A LoRA-enabled Writer compiles per-layer document KVs via behavioral distillation, while the pretrained Reader remains unchanged.
  • Adaptation occurs only during offline cache construction, retaining the standard KV-cache interface.
  • KV Gradient Checkpointing reduces peak training memory while preserving gradients through cached KVs.
  • Across three models and four tasks, mean micro-F1 improves from 0.53 with KV Packet to 0.60, versus 0.62 for Full Recompute.

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SemPIC: Learning Semantic Position-Independent KV Caches

arXiv cs.AI Hui Xie, Peng Xiao, Yutong Deng\textsuperscript, Shuoran Dou, Jian Yang, Jinyang Guo 2026-07-30 arXiv:2607.28069
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TL;DR - SemPIC learns position-independent KV caches for reusable documents, improving long-context retrieval when instructions, histories, or document order change. It approaches full-recompute accuracy while preserving the standard cache-hit decoding path.

  • A LoRA-enabled Writer compiles per-layer document KVs via behavioral distillation, while the pretrained Reader remains unchanged.
  • Adaptation occurs only during offline cache construction, retaining the standard KV-cache interface.
  • KV Gradient Checkpointing reduces peak training memory while preserving gradients through cached KVs.
  • Across three models and four tasks, mean micro-F1 improves from 0.53 with KV Packet to 0.60, versus 0.62 for Full Recompute.
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