Adjusting prediction effort busts cache; watermarking remains

banteg · x · 2026-08-16

The discussion notes that changing the computational effort for predicting the next token (e.g., reasoning level) invalidates previously generated tokens in the cache. The author remarks, "at least you have watermarking." This highlights the technical trade-off between dynamic parameter adjustment during inference and KV Cache consistency.

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