DAMP: Decay-Aware Mixed-Precision Recurrent-State Quantization
Complex reasoning and agentic applications increasingly rely on long-context inference, where growing KV caches increase both memory usage and decoding overhead. Hybrid models reduce these costs by combining Softmax Attention with Gated DeltaNet (GDN) or Kimi Delta Attention (KDA), which maintain fixed-size recurrent states. These states are commonly stored in FP32 and consume substantial GPU memory, while their updates are limited by memory bandwidth. Quantization can reduce both storage footprint and memory traffic, but we find that uniform INT8 and FP8 degrade complex reasoning accuracy, while INT4 and NVFP4 collapse it to near zero. To our knowledge, this is the first study of post-tr...
| Authors | Tao Zhang, Jianchao Tan, Pingwei Sun et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 27 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 30 September 2026 |
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