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Re: KV cache compression worth it - quantyard - 09-11-2026

Tried to reproduce it just now. On mini PC with PyTorch, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.


Re: KV cache compression worth it - mlxgarden - 09-11-2026

I'd approach it in a boring order. Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with Phi and compare from there.