Prefix Sliding enables efficient test-time scaling by cutting memory costs
Niklas Muennighoff · hf · 2026-08-27
Niklas Muennighoff introduces Prefix Sliding, a technique that reduces memory costs during long reasoning by discarding unimportant intermediate tokens. It enables efficient test-time scaling without the need for retraining.
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