diff --git a/docs/report/1H-codesign-paper/figures/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png b/docs/report/1H-codesign-paper/figures/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png
index 4c11a41..b9fa974 100644
Binary files a/docs/report/1H-codesign-paper/figures/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png and b/docs/report/1H-codesign-paper/figures/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png differ
diff --git a/scripts/paper/paper_plot_gqa_kv_sharding_diagram.py b/scripts/paper/paper_plot_gqa_kv_sharding_diagram.py
index a00d470..76eabdf 100644
--- a/scripts/paper/paper_plot_gqa_kv_sharding_diagram.py
+++ b/scripts/paper/paper_plot_gqa_kv_sharding_diagram.py
@@ -163,40 +163,40 @@ def _draw_panel(ax, cfg):
 def _make_table_png() -> Path:
     """Slide-14 companion table: per-PE memory + comm for all 6 cases."""
     headers = ["Case", "Sharding", "KV / PE", "Fit",
-               "Comm/tok\n(analytical)", "Comm/tok\n(measured)", "Notes"]
+               "Comm/tok\n(analytical)", "Notes"]
     rows = [
         ("Case 1",   "Cube-Repl  ·  PE-repl",      "40 GB",  "✗",
-         "1.2 MB",  "1.25 MB",
-         "no sharding — full KV on every PE"),
+         "1.2 MB",
+         "no sharding —\nfull KV on every PE"),
         ("Case 2",   "Cube-SP    ·  PE-repl",      "5 GB",   "✗",
-         "3.8 MB",  "1.27 MB",
-         "cube-axis sharded only"),
+         "3.8 MB",
+         "cube-axis\nsharded only"),
         ("Case 3",   "Cube-Repl  ·  PE-SP",        "5 GB",   "✗",
-         "3.8 MB",  "1.39 MB",
-         "PE-axis sharded only"),
+         "3.8 MB",
+         "PE-axis\nsharded only"),
         ("Case 4",   "Cube-SP    ·  PE-TP-d_head", "640 MB", "✓",
-         "166 MB",  "162 MB",
-         "d_head split intra-cube — partial-score AR ∝ S_kv"),
+         "166 MB",
+         "d_head split intra-cube\npartial-score AR ∝ S_kv"),
         ("Case 5",   "Cube-TP-d_head  ·  PE-SP",   "640 MB", "✓",
-         "166 MB",  "162 MB",
-         "d_head split inter-cube — partial-score AR on UCIe"),
+         "166 MB",
+         "d_head split inter-cube\npartial-score AR on UCIe"),
         ("Case 6 ★", "Cube-SP    ·  PE-SP",        "640 MB", "✓",
-         "6.2 MB",  "1.41 MB",
-         "S_kv split on both axes — (m,ℓ,O) AR only, S_kv-indep."),
+         "6.2 MB",
+         "S_kv split both axes\n(m,ℓ,O) AR only"),
     ]
     accents = [_ACC["red"], _ACC["orange"], _ACC["orange"],
                _ACC["blue"], _ACC["blue"], _ACC["green"]]
 
-    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(20.0, 4.6))
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(15.0, 5.0))
     ax.set_axis_off()
 
     cell_data = [headers] + [list(r) for r in rows]
     tbl = ax.table(cellText=cell_data,
-                   colWidths=[0.07, 0.18, 0.08, 0.05, 0.12, 0.12, 0.38],
+                   colWidths=[0.07, 0.20, 0.09, 0.05, 0.14, 0.28],
                    cellLoc="center", loc="center")
     tbl.auto_set_font_size(False)
-    tbl.set_fontsize(11)
-    tbl.scale(1.0, 2.2)
+    tbl.set_fontsize(10.5)
+    tbl.scale(1.0, 2.4)
 
     n_cols = len(headers)
     n_rows = len(rows) + 1   # +1 header
@@ -237,9 +237,10 @@ def _make_table_png() -> Path:
     tbl[(0, n_cols - 1)].get_text().set_ha("left")
 
     fig.suptitle(
-        "GQA decode KV-sharding — per-PE memory & communication  "
-        "(LLaMA 70B GQA single KV-head group · S_kv = 1 M, FP16, 80 layers)",
-        fontsize=12, y=0.97,
+        "GQA decode KV-sharding — per-PE memory & communication\n"
+        "(LLaMA 70B GQA single KV-head group  ·  S_kv = 1 M, FP16, "
+        "80 layers)",
+        fontsize=11.5, y=0.94,
     )
     out = _OUT_DIR / "gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png"
     fig.savefig(out, dpi=150, bbox_inches="tight")
diff --git a/src/kernbench/benches/1H_milestone_output/gqa/long_ctx/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png b/src/kernbench/benches/1H_milestone_output/gqa/long_ctx/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png
index 4c11a41..b9fa974 100644
Binary files a/src/kernbench/benches/1H_milestone_output/gqa/long_ctx/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png and b/src/kernbench/benches/1H_milestone_output/gqa/long_ctx/gqa_long_ctx_6cases_kv_sharding_table.png differ