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AvoKV-E: Payload-Aware KV Cache Eviction for Long Reasoning

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AvoKV-E replaces routing-only KV eviction policies (recurrence-, redundancy-, or attention-read-based scoring) with a training-free policy that delays eviction eligibility for recent states and ranks entries by normalized read pressure, key redundancy, and value-payload magnitude. It costs additional per-step scoring computation and implementation complexity in the inference path, with no training or extra model weights; memory cost is the eviction metadata plus the unchanged chosen cache budget. It can fail if its scoring heuristics miscalibrate on workloads unlike the evaluated long-reasoning traces, if the delay window is mistuned for short outputs, or if gains do not replicate outside the tested models and tightest-budget regimes.

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    AvoKV-E replaces routing-only KV eviction policies (recurrence-, redundancy-, or attention-read-based scoring) with a training-free policy that delays eviction eligibility for recent states and ranks entries by normalized read pressure, key redundancy, and value-payload magnitude. It costs additional per-step scoring computation and implementation complexity in the inference path, with no training or extra model weights; memory cost is the eviction metadata plus the unchanged chosen cache budget. It can fail if its scoring heuristics miscalibrate on workloads unlike the evaluated long-reasoning traces, if the delay window is mistuned for short outputs, or if gains do not replicate outside the tested models and tightest-budget regimes.

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    Matches or exceeds redundancy-aware, recurrence-based, and thought-adaptive eviction baselines at matched active-KV budgets, with largest gains in the tightest-cache regime; no absolute factor is reported in the abstract.

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