@article{improvingmodelrepresentationandreducingk, title = {Improving Model Representation and Reducing KV Cache via Skip Connections with First Value Heads}, author = {Zhoutong Wu and Yuan Zhang and Yiming Dong and Chenheng Zhang and Cong Fang and Kun Yuan and Zhouchen Lin}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2510.16807}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16807}, }