Andrea Caciolai

[James Whittington @jcrwhittington]

Today we are happy to share one of our first open research releases: Latent Sparse Attention (LSA), a step towards subquadratic attention that matches accuracy of full attention at ultra-long context.

Sparse attention attends to only a few tokens per query, but it has to find the right ones. At 10M tokens, that search takes 98% of the attention layer's time. LSA makes sparse attention up to 22.7× faster and full attention 72.4x faster.

With @kubicek_ales @caciolai @PengLiangzu @SukritSumant @Ben_Hoov @FraserGreenlee @RMBattleday @radim_urban @thoefler @jcrwhittington

[Andrea Caciolai @caciolai]

@jcrwhittington 🏎️