Is ReST-KV superseded?

ReST-KV (KV-cache compression): current frontier — recent, not yet superseded in the knowledge base. 0 paper(s) critique it, 0 beat it on benchmarks — not ranked as a superseded baseline. Sub-problem: cluster led by SnapKV. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include STaR-KV, GRKV, MomentKV, NestedKV, IndexMem.

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ReST-KV

ReST-KV: Robust KV Cache Eviction with Layer-wise Output Reconstruction and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing

KV-cache compression · first seen May 9, 2026

current frontier — recent, not yet superseded in the knowledge base

0 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks

Newer alternatives

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base.

STaR-KV STaR-KV: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Re-weighting for KV Cache Compression in GUI Vision-Language Models
Jun 1, 2026
GRKV GRKV: Global Regression for Training-Free KV Cache Compression in Long-Context LLMs
May 29, 2026
MomentKV Moment-KV: Momentum-Based Decode-Time KV Cache Compression for Long Generation
May 28, 2026
NestedKV NestedKV: Nested Memory Routing for Long-Context KV Cache Compression
May 26, 2026
IndexMem IndexMem: Learned KV-Cache Eviction with Latent Memory for Long-Context LLM Inference
May 25, 2026
CONF-KV CONF-KV: Confidence-Aware KV Cache Eviction with Mixed-Precision Storage for Long-Horizon LLM
May 24, 2026
Meta-Soft Meta-Soft: Leveraging Composable Meta-Tokens for Context-Preserving KV Cache Compression
May 21, 2026
KV-Fold KV-Fold: One-Step KV-Cache Recurrence for Long-Context Inference
May 12, 2026
Global Retention-Based KV Eviction Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction
May 10, 2026
ReST-KV ReST-KV: Robust KV Cache Eviction with Layer-wise Output Reconstruction and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing
May 9, 2026
LaProx Reformulating KV Cache Eviction Problem for Long-Context LLM Inference
May 8, 2026
fixed-contract diagnostic When Does Value-Aware KV Eviction Help? A Fixed-Contract Diagnostic for Non-Monotone Cache Compression
May 7, 2026