SWAN: Sparse Winnowed Attention for Reduced Inference Memory via Decompression-Free KV-Cache Compression

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# SWAN: Sparse Winnowed Attention for Reduced Inference Memory via Decompression-Free KV-Cache Compression

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## SWAN: Sparse Winnowed Attention for Reduced Inference Memory via Decompression-Free KV-Cache Compression

<https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.18936>

Authors

S, Santhosh G
,
Prakash, Saurav
,
Ravindran, Balaraman

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Santhosh G S, Saurav Prakash, Balaraman Ravindran, SWAN: Sparse Winnowed Attention for Reduced Inference Memory via Decompression-Free KV-Cache Compression

Preprint link: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18936>