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The paper proposes a single persistent data structure, a weight-balanced rope with per-node polynomial hashes, that aims to handle four LLM serving tasks: context editing, branching for tree search, KV-cache prefix matching, and deduplication of repeated segments. The reported gains come from specific benchmarks against specialist baselines, including a 369.7x speedup over the Ropey library at one million characters and a 1.20x speedup over SGLang's radix matcher on a live vLLM stack. Readers building inference systems should weigh these as results on chosen workloads, and check whether the unified structure's overhead holds up in production.
Hashrope: A Persistent Data Structure for Mechanisms of LLM Context Management
arXiv:2610.16144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Serving stacks for large language models manage context through four recurring mechanisms: incremental edits to a growing context, branching and snapshotting for tree search, identification of reusable prefixes for KV-cache reuse, and encoding of repeated segments. Each mechanism is served today by a different specialist structure. We show that all four reduce to a single persistent weight-balanced rope whose every node carries a polynomial hash of its subtree over a Mersenne prime, so that the structure supports logarithmic edits and logarithmic verified content-identity queries at the same time. We validate each mechanism with pre-registered, replicated experiments, then compare against a deployed specialist per mechanism: the Ropey editing library, a faithful PagedAttention copy-on-write block table, and the vendored SGLang radix matcher. On workloads that interleave edits with identity queries, Hashrope is net-superior to Ropey by a factor that grows without bound (369.7x at one million characters). Against the radix matcher on a live vLLM stack serving Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M on four A100 GPUs, Hashrope identifies a one-million-token shared prefix exactly and 1.20x faster, at a context length the dense engine cannot even prefill.
Abstract:Serving stacks for large language models manage context through four recurring mechanisms: incremental edits to a growing context, branching and snapshotting for tree search, identification of reusable prefixes for KV-cache reuse, and encoding of repeated segments. Each mechanism is served today by a different specialist structure. We show that all four reduce to a single persistent weight-balanced rope whose every node carries a polynomial hash of its subtree over a Mersenne prime, so that the structure supports logarithmic edits and logarithmic verified content-identity queries at the same time. We validate each mechanism with pre-registered, replicated experiments, then compare against a deployed specialist per mechanism: the Ropey editing library, a faithful PagedAttention copy-on-write block table, and the vendored SGLang radix matcher. On workloads that interleave edits with identity queries, Hashrope is net-superior to Ropey by a factor that grows without bound (369.7x at one million characters). Against the radix matcher on a live vLLM stack serving Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M on four A100 GPUs, Hashrope identifies a one-million-token shared prefix exactly and 1.20x faster, at a context length the dense engine cannot even prefill.
Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2610.16144 [cs.DS]
(or arXiv:2610.16144v1 [cs.DS] for this version)
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