arXiv:2608.08569cs.AIcs.SD2026-08

用语音语义锚点压缩长音频推理的缓存,显著降低内存占用。

VoxZip: Semantic-Anchored Temporal KV Cache Compression for Long-Context Audio Inference

论文配图:VoxZip: Semantic-Anchored Temporal KV Cache Compression for Long-Context Audio Inference
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  • 用ASR转写做语义锚点,分两阶段压缩音频缓存
  • 20倍压缩下仍保持90%以上性能,4倍压缩时吞吐提升1.9倍
  • 适合需要长音频处理的语音大模型应用

语音大模型在理解复杂音频任务上表现优异,但长上下文推理受限于高额的KV缓存内存。现有文本压缩方法在此场景下效果差,常破坏语音连贯性或丢失关键语义。为此,我们提出VoxZip,一种无需训练的两阶段语义锚定缓存压缩框架。第一阶段利用自动语音识别(ASR)转写作为显式语义锚点,对音频标记进行时空对齐、压缩与融合,显著减少初始缓存并提升标记信息密度。第二阶段基于时间衰减的累积注意力动态过滤非必要标记,缓解早期标记偏差。在六个不同音频基准上的综合评估显示,VoxZip在长音频推理中表现卓越,并在短任务中保持高保真感知。尤其在20倍压缩比下,仍维持超过90%的未压缩基线性能。在4倍压缩比下,推理吞吐量提升1.9倍,峰值内存开销降低3.3倍。代码与模型将公开于https://github.com/MM-Speech/VoxZip。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding complex audio tasks. Despite this progress, their long-context inference remains severely bottlenecked by prohibitive KV cache memory demands. Existing text-centric compression methods struggle here, often disrupting speech continuity or discarding crucial semantic cues. To address this, we propose VoxZip, a train-free, two-stage semantic-anchored KV cache compression framework. The first stage uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcriptions as explicit semantic anchors to temporally align, compress, and fuse audio tokens, significantly reducing the initial KV cache while elevating token information density. To further improve the compression ratio, the second stage employs a dynamic filtering strategy based on temporally decayed accumulated attention to evict non-essential tokens while mitigating early-token bias. Comprehensive evaluations on Qwen3-Omni across six diverse audio benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our approach. VoxZip excels in long-audio reasoning and consistently maintains high-fidelity perception on short-form tasks. Notably, it sustains over 90\% of the uncompressed baseline performance even under an aggressive 20x KV cache compression in long-context scenarios. Furthermore, at a 4x compression ratio, VoxZip yields a 1.9x increase in inference throughput alongside a 3.3x reduction in peak memory overhead. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/MM-Speech/VoxZip.

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