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kstaniszewsknvandcoderabbitai[bot] 549cea8c98 Add Dynamic Memory Sparsification (DMS) training and inference implementation (#877)
## What does this PR do?

**Type of change:**  new feature

**Overview:** Training and inference code for Dynamic Memory
Sparsification (DMS) - method from NeurIPS 2025 paper [Inference-Time
Hyper-Scaling with KV Cache
Compression](https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/119605)

## Usage
Detailed in `experimental/dms/README.md` and
`experimental/dms/ARCHITECTURE.md`


## Testing
DMS tests in `experimental/dms/tests` covering:
* prefill
* generation
* gradient propagation
* chunked prefill

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- **Is this change backward compatible?**: Yes
- **Did you write any new necessary tests?**: Yes
- **Did you add or update any necessary documentation?**: Yes
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No, DMS is currently experimental feature with description in
`experimental/dms`

## Additional Information
A minimal, optimized implementation of the DMS algorithm for KV-cache
compression, as described in:

> **Inference-Time Hyper-Scaling with KV Cache Compression**  
> Adrian Łańcucki, Konrad Staniszewski, Piotr Nawrot, Edoardo M. Ponti  
> Paper:
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05345](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05345)
> NeurIPS:
[https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/119605](https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/119605)

Inference-time scaling trades efficiency for improved reasoning by
generating longer sequences. In Transformer LLMs, generation cost is
often bottlenecked by the size of the key-value (KV) cache. DMS
addresses this by learning a KV cache eviction policy that compresses
the cache while preserving accuracy.

## How it works

DMS learns a per-head eviction policy that determines which KV cache
entries to keep during generation. Rather than immediately discarding
tokens, DMS delays eviction decisions, implicitly merging
representations and preserving critical information. During training,
the compression ratio is gradually increased from 1× to a target value
(e.g., 8×), using knowledge distillation to match the outputs of an
uncompressed teacher model.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Introduces Dynamic Memory Sparsification (DMS), an algorithm for
efficient LLM inference and training with adaptive attention gating.
* Adds DMS-enabled Qwen3 models with memory-efficient KV cache
management and paged block-based storage.
* Includes student-teacher distillation training infrastructure with
noise scheduling and compression ratio control.
* Provides configuration system and training/evaluation scripts for DMS
adaptation.

* **Documentation**
  * Added architecture guide, README, and example inference notebook.

* **Tests**
* Added comprehensive test suite for chunked prefill, cache management,
and prefill/inference validation.

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Signed-off-by: Konrad Staniszewski <kstaniszewsk@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: kstaniszewsknv <kstaniszewsk@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: coderabbitai[bot] <136622811+coderabbitai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-02-10 23:09:10 +01:00

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"""Utility functions for DMS tests."""
import os
import sys
import pytest
def add_dms_to_path():
"""Add the DMS package to the Python path."""
sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
ignore_flex_attention_warnings = pytest.mark.filterwarnings(
"ignore:flex_attention called without torch.compile:UserWarning",
)