PCR diagnoses safety collapse after KV-cache quantization
MaartenSap · x · 2026-07-20
This research post introduces Per-Channel Reduction (PCR), described as a diagnostic for predicting and fixing alignment collapse caused by KV cache quantization.
Key points:
- It tests across 11 models and 5 safety benchmarks.
- The claim is that standard KV-cache compression can preserve quality while silently degrading safety behavior.
- PCR is positioned as a way to detect that failure mode and recover much of the lost safety after compression.
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