From Rigid to Dynamic: Entropy-Guided Adaptive Inference for Long-Context LLMs
Researchers introduce EntropyInfer, a training-free framework that optimizes long-context LLM inference by dynamically allocating computational resources based on attention entropy patterns. The method achieves up to 2.39× speedup on models like Llama and Qwen beyond 100k tokens while maintaining output quality, addressing limitations in existing sparse attention and KV cache compression techniques.