{
  "id": "2610.20641",
  "title": "AbridgeKV: Compressing Long Reasoning into the KV Cache of Learned Pause Tokens",
  "authors": "Jack Cai, Lijie Yang, Vasilis Kontonis, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Shivam Garg",
  "first_public": "2026-10-07",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.20641",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20641",
  "summary": "Compresses each completed block of generated reasoning into the key/value cache of learned pause tokens, then discards the block's original cache. Later tokens attend to the compact replacement.",
  "lens": [
    "learned-tokens"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "cache-memory",
    "text-latent-hybrid"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise",
    "stateful"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "architecture"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Jack Cai",
    "Lijie Yang",
    "Vasilis Kontonis",
    "Dimitris Papailiopoulos",
    "Shivam Garg"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.20641/",
  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-2610-20641",
  "citation_date": "2026-10-07",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.20641/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.20641/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.20641/citation.csl.json"
}