In plain words: Rather than cramming a whole document into one set of weights, this splits it into small knowledge pieces, builds a tiny weight patch for each, and picks only the patches a question needs. It beat the one-patch-per-document approach on six question-answering tests, using less memory.
Abstract
Long input sequences are central to document understanding and multi-step reasoning in Large Language Models, yet the quadratic cost of attention makes inference both memory-intensive and slow. Context distillation mitigates this by compressing contextual information into model parameters, and recent work such as Doc-to-LoRA amortizes context distillation into a single forward pass that generates one LoRA adapter per document. However, producing a single monolithic adapter for all queries leads to irrelevant-query interference, limited compositional recall, and poor scalability to long-document reasoning. To address these challenges, we propose Doc-to-Atom (Doc2Atom), a compositional parametric memory framework that decomposes each document into semantically typed knowledge atoms. Each atom is compiled into an independent micro-LoRA adapter and a provenance retrieval key. At inference time, a lightweight query router selects and assembles only the relevant atoms into a query-specific adapter, which is then injected into a frozen base model. The entire system is trained end-to-end through a multi-objective distillation framework. Experiments on six diverse QA benchmarks demonstrate that Doc2Atom outperforms Doc-to-LoRA baselines while reducing the memory cost of document internalization.
Xingjian Diao, Wenbo Li, Yashas Malur Saidutta, Avinash Amballa, Lazar Valkov, Srinivas Chappidi
arXiv:2606.12400 · cs.CL, cs.IR · submitted Jun 10, 2026
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