InfiniteHiP: Extending Language Model Context Up to 3 Million Tokens on
  a Single GPU
Authors: name: Heejun Lee; name: Geon Park; name: Jaduk Suh; name: Sung Ju Hwang
Published: 2025-02-13 02:52:01

Abstract: In modern large language models (LLMs), handling very long context lengths
presents significant challenges as it causes slower inference speeds and
increased memory costs. Additionally, most existing pre-trained LLMs fail to
generalize beyond their original training sequence lengths. To enable efficient
and practical long-context utilization, we introduce InfiniteHiP, a novel, and
practical LLM inference framework that accelerates processing by dynamically
eliminating irrelevant context tokens through a modular hierarchical token
pruning algorithm. Our method also allows generalization to longer sequences by
selectively applying various RoPE adjustment methods according to the internal
attention patterns within LLMs. Furthermore, we offload the key-value cache to
host memory during inference, significantly reducing GPU memory pressure. As a
result, InfiniteHiP enables the processing of up to 3 million tokens on a
single L40s 48GB GPU -- 3x larger -- without any permanent loss of context
information. Our framework achieves an 18.95x speedup in attention decoding for
a 1 million token context without requiring additional training. We implement
our method in the SGLang framework and demonstrate its effectiveness and
practicality through extensive evaluations.