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ISOM-R2: Streaming 1,055,402 Tokens on 3.24 GB Peak VRAM

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Standard Transformer attention has a memory problem at scale. For a 1.05 million-token context with 28 layers, 2 KV heads, and a head dimension of 128, the FP16 Key-Value cache alone requires: 2 × 28 × 2 × 128 × 1,055,402 × 2 bytes ≈ 28.2 GiB That is before loading a single model weight. On a 40 GB A100, the KV cache would consume over 70% of total available memory. On consumer GPUs, it simply crashes. ISOM-R2 (Isometric State Space / Virtual SVD) is a new-gen recurrent memory architecture built to solve this directly.

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