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HeadGuard: Selective Head Protection for Low-Bit VLM KV-Cache Quantization

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arXiv:2609.35800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-bit key-value (KV) cache quantization saves storage but can sharply degrade vision-language model (VLM) accuracy. We introduce HeadGuard, a composable head-protection method that augments a base KV-cache quantizer with a fixed high-precision mask.…

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  1. 2026-09-30 04:00 · arXiv cs.LG
    HeadGuard: Selective Head Protection for Low-Bit VLM KV-Cache Quantization

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