Is InfiniPot superseded?

InfiniPot (KV-cache compression): superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods. 1 paper(s) critique it, 1 beat it on benchmarks — #73 of 234 most-superseded. Sub-problem: cluster led by ReKV. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include MuKV, KVCapsule, Decoupled Streaming Cache (DSCache), LightKV, Hierarchical Adaptive Eviction (HAE).

Method Drift›KV-cache compression

Superseded baseline#73 of 234 most-superseded

InfiniPot

KV-cache compression

superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods

1 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks

What papers say

Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites InfiniPot as a baseline.

“it limits in selecting salient frame regions in spatial domain, failing to analyze across temporal frames and segments”
— MuKV: Multi-Grained KV Cache Compression for Long Streaming Video Question-Answering

Beaten on benchmarks

Head-to-head results where a newer method reports beating InfiniPot. Values are copied from the source paper's tables — verify against the cited paper.

EpiCache beats InfiniPot · Avg [LLaMA3.2-3B / LoCoMo]
27.6 vs 13.3
EpiCache: Episodic KV Cache Management for Long Conversational Question Answering
EpiCache beats InfiniPot · Avg [LLaMA3.2-3B / Realtalk]
30.5 vs 16.8
EpiCache: Episodic KV Cache Management for Long Conversational Question Answering
EpiCache beats InfiniPot · Avg [LLaMA3.1-8B / LoCoMo]
36.3 vs 16.7
EpiCache: Episodic KV Cache Management for Long Conversational Question Answering
EpiCache beats InfiniPot · Avg [LLaMA3.1-8B / Realtalk]
37.8 vs 20.5
EpiCache: Episodic KV Cache Management for Long Conversational Question Answering

Newer alternatives

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base.