ThinK (Long-context / context-window extension): superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods. 0 paper(s) critique it, 1 beat it on benchmarks — #46 of 53 most-superseded. Sub-problem: cluster led by LongLoRA. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include EndPrompt.

Long-context / context-window extension

ThinK

ThinK: Thinner Key Cache by Query-Driven Pruning

Superseded baseline#46 of 53 most-superseded · first seen Jul 30, 2024

Superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods

0 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks

Beaten on benchmarks

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

FreqKV beats ThinK
87.68 vs 85.62
Avg. · [LLaMA-3, 8K evaluation length]
FreqKV: Frequency Domain Key-Value Compression for Efficient Context Window Extension

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.

EndPromptEndPrompt: Efficient Long-Context Extension via Terminal Anchoring
May 14, 2026