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The Key-Value (KV) cache introduces substantial memory overhead during large language model (LLM) inference. Although existing vector quantization (VQ) methods reduce KV cache usage and provide flexible representational capacity across…

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Recently, practical analog in-memory computing has been realized using unmodified commercial DRAM modules. The underlying Processing-Using-DRAM (PUD) techniques enable high-throughput bitwise operations directly within DRAM arrays. However,…

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Deep neural networks have become the standard approach to building reliable Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, ranging from Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to dialogue systems. However, improving accuracy by increasing the…

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