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KVarN: The Calibration-Free KV-Cache Quantization That Keeps Both Speed and Accuracy

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Justin Wilson
Jun 05, 2026
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The KV-cache quantization story has been a choice between losing speed and losing accuracy. A seven-day-old vLLM backend from Huawei CSL just changed the terms.

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