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We consider molecule generation in 3D space using language models (LMs), which requires discrete tokenization of 3D molecular geometries. Although tokenization of molecular graphs exists, that for 3D geometries is largely unexplored. Here,…
Reasoning LLMs produce thousands of chain-of-thought tokens whose KV cache must reside in scarce GPU HBM. The dominant response -- permanently evicting low-importance tokens -- is catastrophic for reasoning: accuracy collapses to 0-2.5%…
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