Tiny KV Cache via Shared Global KV Plus Per-Layer SWA? New Architecture Speculation
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-09-11
Speculation on a newly surfaced architecture: the 'engram' size would be the largest seen to date, with rumored qwen-3.8-flash-next carrying 51B n-gram params. The author argues that sharing global KV while keeping per-layer unique SWA is a decent tradeoff — a tiny KV cache while each layer still sees fresh states. Unconfirmed.
Related event: Leaked DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Tech Report Reveals KV Cache-Obsessed Flagship(44 posts)→
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