KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

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Author: theanonymousone

Date: 6/4/2026

Article Summary:
KVarN is a native vLLM KV-cache quantization backend that delivers 3-5x more context, throughput above FP16, and FP16-level accuracy, calibration-free.