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Presenting TIS (Token Importance Scoring) - A new way to compress KV cache

Hugging Face Forums [Unofficial] July 4, 2026
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Yes! That’s what Phase 4 and onwards will attempt: to get some way for the system to predict / infer which tokens / evidence should be preserved and which one can be discarded during the process. The scoring is just a mathematical way to represent (in a scale 0 to 100 or 0 to 1 when operating) that importance, so that it can easily be sorted out and operated upon. As the overhead of TIS (both in memory and computationally) is almost negligible, implementing it along any other system is not just desirable, but encouraged! Feel free to add to your epistemic layer system, when you need a “source of truth” (use the Oracle system) or a trainable “keep the important tokens” head during cache evictions / compactions.

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