EdgeInfinite: A Memory-Efficient Infinite-Context Transformer for Edge Devices

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22196v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:26:37 GMT
• Title: EdgeInfinite: A Memory-Efficient Infinite-Context Transformer for Edge Devices
• Authors: Jiyu Chen, Shuang Peng, Daxiong Luo, Fan Yang, Renshou Wu, Fangyuan Li, Xiaoxin Chen,
• Abstract summary: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) encounter challenges in processing long sequences on edge devices.<n>We present EdgeInfinite, a memory-efficient solution for infinite contexts that integrates compressed memory into Transformer-based LLMs.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) encounter challenges in processing long sequences on edge devices due to the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms and growing memory demands from Key-Value (KV) cache. Existing KV cache optimizations struggle with irreversible token eviction in long-output tasks, while alternative sequence modeling architectures prove costly to adopt within established Transformer infrastructure. We present EdgeInfinite, a memory-efficient solution for infinite contexts that integrates compressed memory into Transformer-based LLMs through a trainable memory-gating module. This approach maintains full compatibility with standard Transformer architectures, requiring fine-tuning only a small part of parameters, and enables selective activation of the memory-gating module for long and short context task routing. The experimental result shows that EdgeInfinite achieves comparable performance to baseline Transformer-based LLM on long context benchmarks while optimizing memory consumption and time to first token.

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